The Tree is Up

We decorated the tree today and little lady pretty much put every ornament in her mouth! She loves the tree...hence no ornaments within reach of those perfectly chubby little arms on the tree. Oh, and she is has already tried to rip into a few gifts and successfully ripped a bow off of one gift. We have our hands full! On top of that she likes to climb up all 16 stairs by herself now (of course we are right there behind her), opens doors if they are just even the slightest bit open with one teeny little finger, opens ALL drawers and cabinets that are not child proofed and knows the difference for the most part between mama and dada when she blurts out our name.

The Nutcracker

We thought we would attempt to take the little lady to the Nutcracker ballet today. She did pretty good for the first few minutes and then her and daddy went and ate some snacks out in the lobby. She was recharged and ready after intermission though. She seemed to really enjoy the dancers, lights and music. She would stand on my lap and just clap and then look over at daddy like she was almost saying "do you see this daddy?" But midway through act II she fell asleep (while twirling her hair) until the end of the ballet. Oh well...

Turkey Day

Baby lady loved all the thanksgiving food. She took a liking to the pumpkin pie in particular! The mashed potatoes were mashed even further with her little hands, ate some stuffing, turkey and a bite of a biscuit. She ate so much turkey that she was fast asleep at 5:15pm.

It was only a matter of time

With all the crawling and pulling up on everything by little lady, it was inevitable things like photo albums and decorative pieces would be removed from their places and put away until who knows when. She has since moved onto the kitchen where there is a plethora of goodies to discover. Kitchen drawers have now been cleaned or emptied, which was probably long overdue anyways. With that said, she is making light of what the drawer can do for her instead of what is inside. I turned around to put something in the fridge and this is what I found:

(Not the most flattering picture)

Of course the drawer seemed to serve as a stepping stool so the little fingers could reach into the higher drawers. Such a busy body!!!

Fall is Here

Baby blue!

We saw a double rainbow today...

followed by this gorgeous tree

10 Months

Little lady has hit the 10 month mark and she is in full swing! Needless to say mama is tired come end of day.

What she has been up to: becoming quite the comedian, even perfecting her fake laugh. She likes to join in on a conversation if you are laughing and laugh with you. She claps all the time and for everything especially when daddy pretty much does anything. She mimics hand movements to nursery rhymes, stands unassisted for almost a whopping 10 seconds, still puts everything in her mouth, has found Bella's ears and tail, looks for things when you hide them and is pretty good at finding them, about to figure out the "childproof" gate that we could barely figure out, flips the pages in her books by herself and goes to her favorite page in a few books, eats like a champ, quite verbal with her grunting skills, still only mainly says Dadda with the occasional Mama, sometimes even a yeah comes out, just switched over to the big girl bath tub instead of her blow up tub (she LOVED all the extra space), likes to feed herself with a spoon, cheerios are her favorite snack, drinks out of her sippy cup and plastic cup now (even drinks from the bath cup...gross). I know I am missing some things but my mind is drawing a blank.

Performing one of her latest moves at dinner...

Another Day at the Park

Just another day at the park enjoying the gorgeous weather!

Figuring out whether or not the leaf should go in her mouth...answer...yes it went into the mouth!

Nothing like a cool glass of water after an afternoon at the park. This is her newest "trick," drinking out of a regular glass. She has been working on it for the last 2 months but finally perfected the motions. Notice the pinky up; so dainty!