Day with little bug

I've been missing little bug during the day, and work is slow right now so I let her stay at home with me while I "worked from home" today. She started off the day by waking up with the giggles. She was laughing her belly laugh at everything from changing her diaper to giving her a bottle. She is getting really good at imitating sounds now. She has a book that shows an elephant and then it says "bralooo", which is apparently how you spell the noise an elephant makes. Anyway, she imitates the sounds now. Squak, squak for the parajo & oo-oo for the monkey.

During the day, I was in the kitchen and didn't see where she was in the dining room. Silence is never good, so I found her under the dining room table eating carpet lint. I'm so concerned about what is in her food, so we only feed her organic food - and her favorite things to eat are carpet lint and paper. Go figure. I crawled under the table to pick up the extra carpet fibers before she ate any more and she thought it was hysterical that I was under the table with her. She started laughing and fell over on her side she was giggling so much.

We got the mail together, bills for me, a postcard for her. A few seconds later the corner of the postcard had been eaten. I hope they use organic paper.

When it came time for my conference call at 2, she crawled over to me, gave me a huge yawn and went right to sleep in her crib. She was the perfect co-worker today...minus the paper eating.

9 Month Check-Up

Everyone knew that little bug was at the doctor's office last week for her check up. As soon as we put her on the scale to weigh her, she started screaming her head off! It took three of us to hold her down to measure her and then she kept crawling off the scale when they tried to weigh her. Other than putting us through the rodeo, she is right on track 50th percentile for weight (19.2 lbs) and height (27.5in).

As soon as we got her dressed and out of the doctor's office into the elevator to go to the parking garage, it was like nothing had happened. She was smiling sweetly at the people in the elevator and getting comments like, "what a little angel". If only they had seen her ten minutes before...

Puppy love

We were at a friend's house for a BBQ and they have a sweet golden retriever. Little bug was sitting on my lap and reaching for the dog, so the dog came up and licked her hands and gave her a big kiss on the lips. My little bug didn't cry, she wasn't sure what to do, but she definitely liked the dog. During the party she kept walking (while holding onto my hands) towards the dog, and when it would turn around to play with her, little bug would back away. She wanted to get close enough to watch the puppy, but still kept her distance just in case any more doggy kisses were on their way.

Figuring it out

All of a sudden she's figured out how to use things. She picks up a hairbrush and starts brushing her hair, puts the phone to her ear, tries to seatbelt herself into her high chair, and tries to zip up her sleep sack.

She even snuggles with a pillow. I was taking a nap and daddy put her on the bed. She crawled up to my face and put her head down on the pillow next to me. It only lasted for a few seconds of "snuggling", but it was the best!

Holding hands

Little bug is standing up on her own now. I was standing in the living room talking with daddy and I felt a little hand start holding mine. She had stood up without any help, reached up and grabbed my hand.

Drink your water

I was drinking a bottle of water and little bug usually likes to chew on the bottle when the cap is on (or use it as a weapon to bang onto things). She reached for my water, so I handed her my 1/2 empty bottle to play with. She "pretend" drank out of it and then tried to give it back to me. She wouldn't hand it over to me until I would take the cap off and take a sip of water.

I handed the bottle back to her, and she grinned at me, "pretend" drank out of it, then pushed the bottle back to my mouth. She started whining until I took another sip. She started giggling and thought this was highly entertaining. This routine went on until she forced me to finish off the bottle. My little girl now knows how to haze me into drinking my water.

Remembering the First Diaper Changes

Now that little bug is so active, changing her has become quite the challenge. Most changes are as she's either standing up or crawling around. It reminded me of the first times her dad was changing her diaper when she was born. Since I had the c-section, I couldn't leave the bed for the first few hours and her dad had to do everything. He had her laying down on the couch in the room (the one that he was sleeping on), he took her diaper off, used some wipes and then was blowing on her to dry her off from the wipes and she pee'd on the couch. It was so funny to watch the whole comedy routine work out of him trying to change her, while she was yelling at him and peeing all over everything he put in front of her. It is a really funny memory.

Getting into Everything

Silence is never good. It means little bug is interested in something that is entertaining her enough to stay quiet. This morning it was rolling all of the toilet paper off of the roll, yesterday it was emptying the kitchen pantry. Leave her alone for five minutes and she's created quite a mess.

She is also obsessed with daddy's glasses. She constantly pulls them off, bends them, chews on them...

Her second favorite thing is playing with daddy's guitar. Whenever he starts to play, she crawls over, pulls herself up, plucks at the strings and kisses the guitar.

Mother's Day Gift

So Dad put my mother's day gift from little bug in a small bag that she could carry. She had a big grin on her face, swinging the bag around. Once she realized it was a shiny bracelet (that she had picked out), I'm not sure she wanted to give it to me. She kept playing with it on my arm during church, and while we were playing at home. She is very proud of her gift!

Look Out She Bites

The fact that little bug wants to give kisses is really cute. Until she bites. She crawls over all sweet, grabs your face with her two hands, gives you drooly kisses and then when you are laughing she shoves your cheek in her mouth and bites down.

I'm not sure how I'm going to break her of this habit. Maybe we'll just let her do it, it will cut down her dating prospects dramatically.

Splash Zone

Now that little bug pulls herself up on everything, she decided that the bathtub is no different. She grabs a hold of the side of her tub and pulls herself up to standing. From that vantagepoint she realizes that she can throw things out of the tub. So her toys (full of water) hit the ground like water balloons.

Once she figured out that toys can pour water on the bathroom floor, she decided that a full washcloth can do a lot more damage. So it is as if she is a cowboy in a rodeo waving his hat, she waves her washcloth full of water around so it douces anyone and anything in a two foot radius.

I thought I'd outsmart her and I would distract her, squeeze the water out of the washcloth and let her swing around a semi-dry one. To which, she looked at the dry-ish wash cloth and dipped it back in the water. This dip washcloth in the water, swing it around, pause/mommy squeezes out the water, swing it around, realize it is dry, dip it in the water...went on for a few minutes while we laughed at what a mischevous little imp she is. Then we mopped up the bathroom floor with towels.

Puppet Show

Great Grandma is in town so little bug has another audience member to entertain. She tried pulling herself up onto our ottoman so she could stand up and look at Great Grandma who was sitting on the couch. Little bug was trying to do this while she had one of her dolls in her hand. So from the vantage point of sitting on the couch, all you see is a little doll appear above the ottoman, thrash around and then disappear. Then a sheet of paper (which was in little bug's other hand) would appear, thrash around and then disappear.

For the ending of the show, both the paper and the doll appeared and moved around quite a bit. We laughed hysterically at the show. Eve had no idea what we were laughing at since she was just trying to pull herself up but couldn't because both her hands were full.

Great Grandma also taught her a new trick. If little bug is sitting down and you put your pointer fingers in front of her and say "Wheee", she pulls your fingers above her head, lifting her arms up. She is pretty proud of her new trick which she learned during a long car ride today.