Not the best maid

I was watching little bug play around in her room and "put things away". I watched as she picked my bracelet up off the floor, walked to the diaper genie, opened it up, and put the bracelet inside. After closing the lid, she opened it back up again just to make sure it was still there.

Apparently plastic Easter eggs are best hidden under the corner of our bed, and pieces of lint in her mouth.

She has also started wiping things off. She prefers to use her dirty washcloths that are hanging on the oven door drying. Little bug is now tall enough to stand up, pull the washcloth down, open the cabinet door, pull out a cup and then 'wipe it off' with her dirty washcloth. Let's just say that she won't be opening a cleaning business any time soon.

As if her cleaning ventures aren't enough activity, she is going through the "what do I fit into" phase. I've found her wedged between two dining room chairs, hiding between the daybed and the wall, and trying to stick her legs into daddy's ukulele case. When her nanny was packing her suitcase for a trip she was going on, little bug took all of the clothes out of the suitcase, threw them all over the floor, crawled into the case and closed the lid.

She also trys to put my shoes on herself and can't quite understand why they won't stay on her feet when she walks.

It's got fangs

So when little bugs top teeth were breaking through the upper right one started looking like it was pointed, like a vampire fang hanging down. We kept trying to get her to open her mouth so we could inspect it, but she kept clamping her jaws shut. Even her nanny was joking about her vampire teeth and how it'll be funny to look at until her real teeth come in.

I was getting worried about the teeth that only a mother could love lasting for the first five years.

But, before I was able to research if they make baby veneers, it turned out that the pointed tooth was just a part of her gum that had turned white and was protruding more than the rest of her teeth. Whew! So she has four teeth, all straight, some not so close to others...but at least none are pointed!

Fourth Tooth Coming In!

Little bug was laughing in her car seat and I saw the fourth tooth poking out of her gums. So we've made it through the first four teeth breaking through the gums with no fevers! Whew. And now that she has four teeth she is now what we call a 'city girl'. Of course there is a space a mile wide in between her two front teeth. Hopefully when they drop all the way through her gums they'll shore up a little...

Third Tooth

When daddy was reading little bug her bedtime story, she was holding onto her doll and laughing with me. She put her head back giggling and we saw her top right tooth has just broken through her gums. So now that she has three teeth, she can officially be a resident of Georgia.

We rarely stray from her bedtime routine, so little bug now starts making sucking sounds even before we give her the bottle because she knows it is coming. She waits to get her teeth brushed, and then lays back so that we can put cream on her neck to avoid a neck rash. Such a pampered princess.

She has also started playing games with us. If she is crawling and we start crawling behind her, saying "I'm going to get you", she speeds up and starts giggling trying to outrun us. I was in her room and she crawled into the hallway and then looked back at me as if to say, "aren't you going to come get me?"

Everything in its place

Little bug has started realizing that certain things go in certain places. She must get it from her dad, since I'm a little more random in the organizational department. Today she opened up a gift box, took out the cotton stuffing inside, then put the stuffing back and tried to put the lid back on. She's also figured out how to put on sunglasses, and attempted to put her daddy's glasses on her - which we stopped since we were sure it would make her blind. So for now, books go on the shelf, lids go back on boxes and socks, well, socks seem to go anywhere.

She now also has a trick she does with daddy. Rather than kissing him, she headbuts him. When he feeds her in her high chair, she stops and leans her head forward as far as she can and won't eat until he taps his head to hers. Then she smiles and takes another bite of food.