9 mos

Sorry I know you've been at the edge of your seat waiting...Ok- so there won't be any more monthly pictures and I'm sure you'll see why after this. I really wanted to do it until 1 year, but I think it's just not going to happen. Pictures today were torturous! Yes I know her bday was yesterday, but I worked 12 hours, so we did them today. Mira isn't feeling well- she has a REALLY stuffy nose- I got her some sudafed. She is also having really bad diarrhea- I started putting her in disposables (ick) with aquaphor all over her bottom because she's so red. She actually slept until 9 am this morning and then still took 2 naps!!
Mira has 8 teeth now- four on top and four on bottom. She's been such a good teether. She really doesn't get too fussy and she's not one of those kids that drools non stop or always has a runny nose. I hope they're all this easy!!
She's trying to take a step on her own but she's too scared! She'll walk holding on to just one of our hands now and she'll stand for 10-15 seconds on her own, but she just can't seem to get that foot picked up all the way. She does really well cruising and walking with her walker.As you can see we've just started and we're already having difficulties here. I kept trying to tape it out of her reach but she could still get at it.
No mom, no pictures on my back this month please.M is so precious. She's the sweetest baby. She can give kisses SO GOOD on command!! She doesn't know hug yet, but that's because we like kisses more. She does fives good too- we're working on high fives. She crawls up the stairs too, but not down- we have to keep them gated off or she makes a beeline for them. Here she's chasing her sign up the stairs and I'm trying to get a picture...I'll take that crinkly paper thank you. So then I had the brilliant idea of taping it to her walker- which worked...Briefly...she still found it- we're done.So that's my story- the end of the sweet monthly pictures...

I pinned!!!

So first- this is Mira's new fav thing- climbing around this little table. It's obnoxious because the table is so wobbly. We had to put the lamp downstairs after she knocked it off once and we can't even keep the remotes in it because she constantly pulls them out. Little stinker.
On a diaper note- which you have to admit there haven't been any for awhile. We got a huge package in the mail from a prefold coop. Prefold is what everyone thinks of when they think cloth diaper- a flat piece of material that's thicker in the middle and thinner on the edges. You fold it around baby to make it fit. Well, I had some prefolds already, but they are a huge size. When I originally wanted to try it out I wanted to buy big because I wanted to get my money's worth. Well, we've always used snappi's (those rubber things you've seen in previous posts) but in the coop I ordered pins and smaller sizes (some for the new baby and for M- they were outrageously cheap). Well I kept trying to pin the ones we had and it wasn't working - I have to fold too much of it down and it's too thick. I was starting to think I was pin retarded. Well then I washed up these smaller ones and look how good they fit!! I succeeded with pins! Doesn't she look incredibly happy to be wearing a prefold?? In the last picture you can just see the little white pin heads sticking up on her sides. They are trim trim trim! Yay hippie mama!

My heart

Just a little quote I found...
"Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body." ~Elizabeth Stone

Mr Spoon

Now some of my friends use spoons as negative punishment, and we might in the future do so as well, however this is not the case here. When we were in Texas M found this old play spoon of B's from when he was a kid and carried it around in her mouth constantly. Well I went to brus today to get baby jail- which I don't have a pic of yet...and found these toddler scoop spoons that are flexible rubber- not hard plastic. SHE LOVES IT! Good thing there are two in the package! It hasn't really left her mouth since I gave it to her. She walks with it, crawls with it, sits and looks at it and chews on it...whatever.Here you can see her briefly considering something else....

thwarting my child's language development

This is Mira- who will probably never talk- you know why?? Guess what she's doing? Watching BABY EINSTEIN! *gasp* Doesn't she look happy though?? She loves Old McDonald. I can't help it- I do what she likes. I figure an hour a day isn't going to kill her and she most likely will eventually talk...because of course other than tv- we don't talk to her at all. Today we are going to Babies rus to get the "superyard XT" baby playpen- it is torture to try and get a shower in, clean the house, water the flowers, etc all when she's sleeping because it's impossible to contain her when she's awake. I will take a picture of her in baby jail sometime for you to see. I think it will save my life. I can lock her in the bathroom with me during shower time, but she pulls open the drawers and smashes her fingers in them and then screams until I get out. Oh the drama. She also loves toilets- sick. What a crazy girl. I don't think she looks retarded do you??

Crawling

Here are a few pics of the morning. M crawling around in her diaper, and then after she got dressed. She NEVER sits still. There is the slight occasion where she's watching a Baby Einstein- which apparently thwarts development- but they are few and far between. She is a really fast crawler now too. She hardly ever army crawls anymore. She'll stand holding on with one hand and then throw both hands in the air and stand on her own for a few seconds. She thinks she's pretty cool. The video get's pretty blurry because she's coming so fast- but still so cute!!

woops

So I am unable to resist the sleeping baby picture- it got me this time!! hehe...I woke her up. Oh well, she was tired so she went right back to sleep. M is going to St. Joe today so she can see her great grandma- mom is going to work on that picture book that so far is only at 4 months.
How am I ever going to keep up with 2?! I already have over three hundred pics at walgreens I need to go pic up. I don't want to forget a single minute. The first book for M is only 0-4 mos- you should see the insanity- but when you have the cutest kid on earth- what do you do?