Updates

You took your first steps on your own the Friday before your birthday. And haven't done many more since then. You still scoot all over the place on your butt, a bit like a crab. You've developed a habit of going stinky in your pants, then scooting over to momma and raising your arms. Thankfully, diaper changes are a LITTLE better than they were, but you have this new bucking thing you're doing when you're on the changing table that is HARD to handle.

Something else new--you found your thumb a week or 2 ago. You don't suck it a lot and, surprisingly, I haven't noticed you sucking on it when you're tired. Right now it's cute. Hopefully you don't get too attached to it.

You're doing a little better without your early morning bottle than you were. Instead you're getting up at 5 or 5:30 for breakfast. You love scrambled eggs, Kix, yogurt.... Daddy said this morning you had 3/4 cup Kix with milk, a full carton of YoBaby yogurt with fruit, and a few bites of a cereal bar. You've found your appetite but not consistently. There are still days you skip meals at daycare (at least you're not skipping BOTH breakfast and lunch anymore) but then you pig out at snack time. I think their food is too bland and childish for you. Momma doesn't want you to be a kid that will only eat chicken nuggets and macaroni and cheese so you get a variety of foods. Yesterday we found out you like chili and today you kept coming back for more bites of Daddy's pickles.

You also seem to be changing your nap schedule. I don't know if daycare is trying to transition you or if you're doing it on your own, but you've been more likely to take one long nap in the middle of the day instead of 2 short naps, morning and afternoon.

Poor thing, you've had a horrible cough the past couple weeks. Cough and runny nose, but you act like you feel fine. You sound pathetic at night and Mimi said you had a horrible coughing spell on her yesterday. I think your nose is running so much with the teething that it's just running down the back of your throat. Your humidifier is helping you sleep and we started giving you some honey for the cough. It seems to help some--there aren't any cough meds that are okayed for little ones so the honey is the best we can do. Well, unless we wanted to make you a hot toddy, but momma can't do that. Hopefully your cough will be gone by the time we start Water Babies class in a few weeks.

I love you baby girl!