Addy's new favorite books are "Dinosaur vs. Bedtime" by Bob Shea and "Curious George at the Zoo" by H A Ray. The former involves lots of "ROAR!" sound effects. The latter is the great trifecta of Curious George, chew toy, and touch-and-feel book.
Bob Shea also has a book called "Dinosaur vs. The Potty". Too bad we're not potty training yet...
Thursday, July 14, 2011
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
New tricks, old tricks, bad habits
The red-headed wonder is now fully weaned to formula--huzzah! Unfortunately, that has had an unpleasant side-effect of some tummy troubles. Fortunately, Addy loves prune juice. We're still working on finding the right balance, but it's finally getting better.
Starting a couple of weeks ago, Addy figured out how to make a super-adorable new face. She scrunches up her nose, squints her eyes, and makes a snorting noise. Apparently she looks especially like me when she does this. She has also started saying "Mamama", but mostly when I'm not in the room. (After she says "Mamama" a few times and it fails to make me appear, she moves on to "Dadada".)
Her latest trick, which I'm not really excited about, is throwing a small fit when she doesn't get her way. Usually it's because she wants to play with a cell phone or something and it has been taken away from her.
Starting a couple of weeks ago, Addy figured out how to make a super-adorable new face. She scrunches up her nose, squints her eyes, and makes a snorting noise. Apparently she looks especially like me when she does this. She has also started saying "Mamama", but mostly when I'm not in the room. (After she says "Mamama" a few times and it fails to make me appear, she moves on to "Dadada".)
Her latest trick, which I'm not really excited about, is throwing a small fit when she doesn't get her way. Usually it's because she wants to play with a cell phone or something and it has been taken away from her.
Saturday, June 25, 2011
If you guessed "Bottom Right Tooth", you were right!
The pesky thing seems to have finally broken through (barely). Addy's first tooth is the lower right one! Derek was disappointed that I didn't make "egg tooth" one of the options on the poll. My theory was that it's a little late for Addy to finally be getting an egg tooth.
She is also officially a big fan of bananas and actively tries to help find the spoon with her mouth when we feed them to her.
She is also officially a big fan of bananas and actively tries to help find the spoon with her mouth when we feed them to her.
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Roll Over Fiend
Addy is now officially a roll over master (front to back to the right only). While entertaining and exciting, it does make it more difficult to get her to practice crawling because as soon as you put her on her tummy, she starts to flip over.
We had a very good father's day with family over the weekend. Addy was baptized at church on Sunday and we celebrated anniversaries and birthdays while we were all together (Aunt Katie dubbed it "Happy Fill-In-The-Blank Day".
We had a very good father's day with family over the weekend. Addy was baptized at church on Sunday and we celebrated anniversaries and birthdays while we were all together (Aunt Katie dubbed it "Happy Fill-In-The-Blank Day".
Monday, June 13, 2011
Twice in one day!
Addy rolled herself over (front to back) twice today--hooray! When she's done it in the past, it's been on accident while chasing a toy or trying to stuff her fingers in her mouth. Today it was quite purposeful.
We're also experiencing a battle of wits at our house for the past week. Just when I start to work on getting the red-headed wonder weaned to all formula, she declares that formula is gross and refuses to eat it. Spits the bottle out, just lets the formula drool all over her chin, occasionally gags--all kinds of fun and totally out of the blue. I took her to the doctor to check to make sure it's not an ear infection or anything. Nope, she's just opinionated. (Not that I can really blame her. The stuff is disgusting. You couldn't pay me enough to drink formula.). Maybe when she's done cutting this tooth she'll be more agreeable.
We're also experiencing a battle of wits at our house for the past week. Just when I start to work on getting the red-headed wonder weaned to all formula, she declares that formula is gross and refuses to eat it. Spits the bottle out, just lets the formula drool all over her chin, occasionally gags--all kinds of fun and totally out of the blue. I took her to the doctor to check to make sure it's not an ear infection or anything. Nope, she's just opinionated. (Not that I can really blame her. The stuff is disgusting. You couldn't pay me enough to drink formula.). Maybe when she's done cutting this tooth she'll be more agreeable.
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Redefining Hand-Eye Coordination
Addy had another visit with the pediatrician yesterday. She's an all-around 90th percentile kid at 17lb10oz and 26.5 inches. The nurse said her head circumference is at 44.5 cm, but I get closer to 44.0 when I measure it at home (either is just fine and an improvement over where she was at before the shunt revision).
She's working on getting better at her hands-and-knees pose and putting one hand in front of the other. My guess is she'll "army crawl" before she does a four-point crawl, but it's exciting anyway. Addy's latest favorite thing to do is to grab and poke at your face. Apparently she thinks that hand-eye-coordination means coordinating her hand to find your eyes.
She's working on getting better at her hands-and-knees pose and putting one hand in front of the other. My guess is she'll "army crawl" before she does a four-point crawl, but it's exciting anyway. Addy's latest favorite thing to do is to grab and poke at your face. Apparently she thinks that hand-eye-coordination means coordinating her hand to find your eyes.
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Tummy time, v.2.0
Addy is working on practicing her "four-point" stance this week. This morning she was on her hands and knees on her mat, with Miss Cindy's hand helping to support her tummy, but she got too excited about grabbing a toy in front of her and reached with both hands. Fortunately Cindy kept Addy from learning about gravity the hard way.
Yesterday was the first real day of doing repeated consonants--mostly "bababa," but there is also the occasional "dadada" or "mamama" too. Before now Addy has mostly just done random jibber-jabbers and lots of raspberries.
And lastly, Addy is starting to dabble in that really annoying phase of baby-dom: "I do it." This week it's been a lot of helping hold the bottle. Only, because she's teething, she likes to push and pull the bottle along her gums.
Yesterday was the first real day of doing repeated consonants--mostly "bababa," but there is also the occasional "dadada" or "mamama" too. Before now Addy has mostly just done random jibber-jabbers and lots of raspberries.
And lastly, Addy is starting to dabble in that really annoying phase of baby-dom: "I do it." This week it's been a lot of helping hold the bottle. Only, because she's teething, she likes to push and pull the bottle along her gums.
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