I haven't been in the blogging mood lately. I'm not sure if it is going to come back any time soon, so I guess I should make a quick update on our baby girl.
She's been super active (has she ever been not very active?) and she's been able to get around very quickly. I know we all go through the same experience, but it amazes me how exciting it must be to be able to go anywhere you want to go after having to depend on other people for it for 8 months. And Sophia is EXCITED! You should hear her high pitch squeaks when she crawls closer to a cat. She hasn't quite figured out that scaring the cats with loud noises is not going to get her a very good quality time with the pets. She's paying close attention to us saying "be gentle" and showing her how to pet the kitties, but half a minute later she succumbs to the temptation and grabs a tail or whiskers. It has surprised me how patient our kitty-cats have been with our little one. I guess they've adopted her as one of the care-givers too and even try get her to scratch behind their ears. Cammy will come and rub against baby's hand trying to get attention. It is super cute!
There are a few other things that entice Sophia. Even though it still rains a lot we have been able to get outside for short walks (as in baby walking in her Juppy walker)
Another fun thing she's been discovering is going to the park for walks. Her first time in a swing was a little scary, but now she'll try to bounce and move her legs in order to go faster!
Here's our cute heart discovering grass:
No matter what Sophia is doing when she hears me open the dishwasher, she zooms through the room. I have only about 10 to 20 seconds to grab all of the forks and knives out of the silverware basket that's attached to the bottom of the dishwasher and is located in a very "grabable" spot for the baby with a goal. My mother-in-law made a good point saying that in 12-15 years it'll be much more difficult to get her to have to do anything with the dishwasher!
Another favorite activity is laundry. Everything about laundry. She's not a big fan of the noise made by the washer, but she loves standing next to the dryer and watching me get out the clothes. She has lots of fun when I'm sorting through the laundry or putting it away. She plays with the laundry basket, gets things out and puts them back many times. She'll find anything else on the floor and come put it into the basket. She'll push it around as a walker. I think she learned to squat for the first time when holding on to the basket and trying to pull one of my sweaters through the hole near the bottom of the basket.
Organizing. We do believe that's Sophia's way to rebel. She's trying to organize everything. Give her a container and she'll put everything into it. Take it out and she'll crawl, pick it up, go up and down as many times as needed to put every single thing back into it! The other day we were sorting through piles of stuff in our office that's been working as a "spare closet" since baby's been born and she had lots of fun grabbing anything she could get a hold of and dragging it into her container!
Our little organizer doesn't miss the shelves either. She'll crawl up to a shelf with a toy, put the toy onto the shelf, pick something of the shelf, play with it or move it to a higher shelf, put it back and repeat ten times. At the end of her playing time all of the objects will still end up on the shelf!
*Note to self: If your baby is busy playing and gets very quiet, it is never a good sign, no matter how much you are enjoying the moments of peace and the chance to finish doing whatever you started. Today Sophia decided that the changing table needed to be wiped with the diaper wipes and apparently it was very, very dirty, since the neat baby girl used up the whole container while mommy was folding and putting away her clothes!
Eating. It's been a learning trial-and-error experience for all of us. It took me a while, but I learned to discern the expressions that our sweetie pie has during meal times. I had no idea there could be so many of them. At least I learned pretty quickly to recognize when she opens up her mouth for a sneeze and not rush a spoon full of cereal into it, unless I wanted to clean it off myself, Kyle and the rest of the kitchen / dinning room :) We've been trying lots of different foods. Since Sophia is getting bored with the pureed stuff we've been experimenting with textures and forms. Some of them have worked better than others. But she still loves her chicken, cheese, yogurt, puffs, apples plus carrots, small pasta, bread, celery, corn. She is OK with other foods and we are trying to offer her more types of food from our table (the ones that we think are healthy enough for her, of course. So even though she was pointing pretty clearly at it, she still got no pizza on the menu). Of course we are NOT OK with some foods that Sophia has tried... like cat food... :))
Is this the result of "success" or "error"? :)
Who needs hair styling products anyway?
Of course, I'll have to mention how quickly our little crawler and cruiser moves between different furniture. She's getting pretty tall too! She reached Kyle's glasses that were laying on the counter in our bathroom! (Well, it's not a very tall counter, but seemed to be tall enough until now). She'll climb up anything. I still don't understand how she learned to do it so quickly. I suspect that if she weren't so cautious, she'd be trying to walk by now.
Another very exciting event in the life of our little baby girl was the visit of her grandparents and her Dedication that happened the week after Easter. It was a very important and touching moment for all of us!
It's been a few weeks since I've started writing this "quick" update. So I better get it posted now before another "few" weeks go by.
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