Awe, only TWO months left of her first year! This is just too crazy :(
• girlfriend is quite the dancer. she loooves to dance! if you tell her to dance, she'll start shaking back and forth, or bouncing up and down. or if you dance in front of her, she'll join you :)
• she has taken a serious liking in her grandpa Tabet the past couple of weeks. I mean, she's always loved him, duh, but lately she is OBSESSED with him. 3/4 of the time, she'll choose him over me. which is extremely strange for my child to choose someone over me, if you know her, you know what I'm talking about!
• she says: grandpa (which sounds like 'bampa' when she says it, but we know that's what she's saying because she repeats it when we tell her too. plus, it actually sounds like that is what she's saying when SHE says it), bubba (that's what she calls bransyn), bubye, up, dada, and sometimes (and that means like once a month) she'll say mama still.
• she loves playing in her car seat. she'll climb in there, sometimes lay down in it, sometimes rock back and forth in it, depends on her mood, but it sure is a fun jungle gym for her ;) haha
• we went to Jumpin' Jacks a few weeks ago, and babe LOVED it. she got to go down the bouncy slides (being held, of course... she's not THAT big yet ;) and she got to crawl around the big bouncers and she had a smile on her face the whole time!
• she's obsessed with my cell phone. if she sees me with it, she'll come over to me and grab it from my hands. one day when she was fussing in the car, I pulled up one of bransyn's activities on my phone, it's an app where every time you touch the screen, stars pop out and make a sound. well she has been pretty obsessed with that, & it keeps her pretty dang content ;)
• she is constantly pulling her socks off! I don't know why, but once they go on, she's got her feet up and she's pulling the socks off. she has also started sucking on her toes once the socks are off. it's pretty cute if you ask me ;)
• she waves now :) she's still trying to get the hang of it, but she will do it! and at the right time, too! if we say 'bubye' to her, she'll start saying it, and waving her little hand. one day when I was putting her in her carseat, she said 'bubye' and started waving all on her own! we hadn't said it to her at all! such a smart baby :)
• her 6th tooth popped through on February 25th! it's the one right next to her very middle tooth on the top, on the right side. it's been trying to work it's way through for quite a while now, and it finally made its debut!
• she gives kisses! not ALL the time, but she randomly will when you ask for them! and she gets in 'kissy moods' where she will just kiss you over and over! :) they're the mouth wide open, get drool all over your face kisses, but they sure are the best! :)
• she eats like a teenage boy. homegirl will seriously eat anything, and she eats a LOT of it! she eats probably TRIPLE what Bransyn eats, I wouldn't even hesitate to say she eats as much as I do at one sitting. PLUS, she still nurses every four hours! she has a few things that she hasn't really cared for, but for the most part, she loves pretty much everything. a few of her favorites right now are blueberry waffles, avocados, and strawberries!
• if you give her a comb/brush, she will try to brush her hair!
• she loves looking at herself in the mirror. she knows she's cute ;)
• she'll randomly throw fits when I put her in her carseat. I don't know why, she's always loved her carseat. but she'll arch her back, and start screaming. i'll tell her over & over, 'lets go bubye!' and she'll stop, but I dunno why she freaks when she first goes in there, ha.
• she throws fits. she'll arch her back, and lay her head back and cry/scream. ohhh, the joys of transitioning from baby to toddler ;)
• she still isn't walking (which I am MORE THAN FINE WITH! one 9 month walker was plenty for me!) but she is starting to stand a bit more now without holding onto something.
• she loves climbing onto bransyn's bed! she gets up there all by herself! she has also figured out a way to get onto OUR bed all by herself, which is about twice as high as B's bed is. there is a box sitting right next to our bed, and she'll go climb onto that, then climb onto our bed from that. she also knows how to safely get down from both beds/couches/anything too high to crawl off of. in her last update I'm pretty sure I mentioned that she was doing this, but then she kind of stopped. she'll turn her little body around, and scoot down booty first off of the high spot, and gets on the floor safely :)
• she likes to steal food out of people's mouths :)
• she's still as obsessed with paper as ever. any kind of paper she can get her hands on, she loves. and FREAKS if you take it from her. I dunno what this girls deal with paper is! haha
• her sleeping has been a bit better, lately. she has only been waking up one time the past few nights. and she has been going to sleep easier at night, and for naps. CROSSING my fingers she continues with this, because it's pretty nice only having to get up one at night ;) Oh, and usually her wake up is between 3-6, so she does sleep pretty long!
• she still goes to bed at 8pm every night, but she has been waking up earlier than she used to lately. she used to sleep until 8-9am, but now she wakes up between 7-7:30 am. kind of sucks cause I am SO not a morning person, but it's worth it to have her cute face to get up with :)
• if she is on the floor, and you walk by her, she will put her hands up like she wants to be picked up. it is just TOO cute to pass right by her, you just gotta pick her up! ;)
• she is obsessed with climbing over things. she'll crawl through the kitchen chairs or bar stools, to get to the other end of the kitchen, instead of going around them. it's like she's going through her own little obstacle course ;)
• she loves climbing on things, period. she is constantly climbing on the treadmill, on top of boxes, anything she can get on top of, she does!
• she loves going into the exercise room. i don't know why, but she is ALWAYS sneaking in there, and trying to play on all the equipment!
• she still loves baths! and she does sooo good! when I wash the shampoo out of her hair, it doesn't even phase her if the water gets in her eyes! I have also been giving her baths in the kitchen sink again (cause it is SO SO SO much easier!) and she LOVES it! she loves playing with the faucet, and turning the water on and off.
• she has never really had an interest in TV, like at all. which I think is GREAT, because Brans is obsessed with TV, and it drives me nuts. but one day he was watching Yo Gabba Gabba, and she was SO intrigued by it! she crawled over to the TV, stood up and just stared at it! she hasn't really watched it since, cause she doesn't pay enough attention to the TV, but it was just so funny how it got her complete attention!
• she loves being outside and going on walks. I'm so glad it's getting closer to spring so we can start spending more time outside soon!
• she is still in love with her brother. he is seriously the best thing in the world to her. I love it so much.
