09.02.09

I came home from work today and when I saw you I about had a heart atatck. You have a huge bruise on your face. Scared me to death to hear the story of what had happened. I guess apparently you were just being you...quick as can be...and you ran in front of Millie on the swing and she kicked you right in the face. You don't look too pretty and I hope it heals quickly. A few bumps and bruises comes with the territory of a little girl that is still fairly new to walking (and is now literally trying to run)...but this just looks so bad.

09.27.09

You are such a big girl...or you think you are anyway. You want to be with the big kids...doing what the big kids are doing...playing with the big kids...eating what the big kids are...just one of them. na doh...you get so mad if you can't. Tonight Burke went outside to play and you literally jumped up as fast as you could and practially started running to go follow him outside to play in the sandbox. When you got to the door jam you knelt down crawled across it and then hopped back up. your dad and I both started laughing at that. What makes it funny is that you have followed the kdis out so many times in such a hurry (I mean you litereally are almost running) that you always trip on the door jam. It made me laugh to see that you had finally learned from all of the falls.

I'm also convinced that you think you are a mermaid. You lvoe water and the bath. You were basically esleep in your bed tonight and then you heard the bath water go on for Burke (he too is like a fish). You started yelling in your crib, when i ignored you, you started crying. SO I went in to get you. I set you down in your bedroom and then I ran to tell Millie that she needed to get undressed and take a bath tonight ( she takes bribeing to get in the bath)...well before I knew it Burke yelled out..."Mom, Lizzy's in the tub." I came running...scared to death...but there you were fully clothed and happy as a clam to have somehow dove in safely...I grabbed the camera..snapped a few happy pictures and then began taking your clothes off. Only at that point you thought I was making you get out and you started screaming your head off. That made me laugh even harder. I kept saying "you can get in, you can get in"...but you just didn't understand or care.

9.24.09

I have been sooo bad at writing in your journal...but I will get better...

You just hit your 11 month mark and your 1 year mark will be here before I know it! You so want to be a big person. You want to always be playing with the kids, eating real food, and be in the middle of whatever is going on.

You started walking on July 24th adn you are practically running now! You are just this little petite baby walking upright and tryig to be a big person. We love you!

05.05.09

You are quite the mover and the shaker now. You can easily move from your belly into the sitting position. You started doign your form of comando crawling at the end of last week...where you lay on yoru belly an dyou pull yourself with your hands. You get up on you hands and knees and rock like you are just going to take off, but you usually move one or two inchs before you end up on your face doing this beach whale move and then you'll pull yourself around. Your good to use your feet to help propel you to get places faster, but not quite crawling. But I think it is only going to be a matter of time before you are furniture walking. Tonight at Grandma Erroleen's we sat and watched you adn watched you try to pull yourself up on ehr little end table. there were some scriptures in the bottom part of the table that you wanted, but you couldn't quite get to them sitting down...at least not the way you wanted to...so you kept trying to pull yourself up. You were almost about to make it happen, but you just couldn't figure out how to get those hands onto the top of tje table. Millie and Burke weren;t even close to crawling at your age. You have been able to rolly polly yourself around a room, but no more rolly polly...it's all just a crawling and a pullign now. I love watching you grow up.

Last nigth was the first time you reached for me...specifically for me. You went to bed with your daddy and you were almost esleep when I ctawled into bed. You did a double take and once you realized it was me you let out a yelp and a few tears and started reachign for me. It was priceless to me. I've been wondering when you were going ot really start realizing who I am. Well, you've known who I am but now you are wanting to come to me. I love it!

4.26.09

I was watchign you play in the living room this morning and you were first sitting up, but then you really wanted your toy so as you reached and reached for it you worked your way to your belly....which you have been able to do without falling for almost a month now...this talent came early on. not too much falling over with you...you just manage to work your way from the sitting position to the belly position adn then rolly polly from there. Then the last little while you've been pulling yourself up onto your hands and knees adn I thuoght by now you would really be crawling...you so obviosuly want to...just can;t quite figure it out. nut today after you pulled your knees in under you you managed to get your arms positioned just right that you sat yourself up. I could not believe it. I've never seen a little baby do that. but you did...adn you just keep doing it. Definatly a new talent for you this month. So fun!

4.29.09

You have figured out how to spit. Yesterday you were trying to tell me that you didn't liek what I was feeding you and you managed to spiyt it out at me as you made your little lips vibrate. when it happened you got this kind of funny look on your face liek you had surprised yourself. well it is a new addtion to your "fun thigns you do" list. You can't stop making your lips vibrate and spitting. Your daddy was holding you tonight and he thought the whole thing was so funny. You tuck your little bottom lip under your top lip...and then come the sound effects. it is just darling. (Probably not the best thing for your little chin which was finally get past the red, dry, chapped stage)

4.21.09

No more work with mommy. You have finally become active enough that I just can't take you to work with me. It's been kind of hard. I miss having you there everyday. I miss your little smile. i miss having a reason to hide in my office and take a break from the day to have you eat and snuggle. I miss beign able to show you off to all of the patients. The girls miss you to. Life is just not the same without you at the office.