Tuesday, August 4, 2009

First Words & a little more

So much has changed here lately, most of which has been captured in the videos. Raelye is crawling super fast! We've made the dining room into her playroom so we can keep her corralled. She started pulling up once we got back home from Texas. She loves to stand up and hold onto whatever she can.
Raelye is also eating everything in sight. She has started chewing and loves to eat yogurt melts, puffs, freeze-dried fruits, and pancakes! We talked to Nanny & Daddy Bill other morning (they are on their way to see us next week) and told them all three of us had pancakes for breakfast! Nanny said she didn't think it was such a great idea to feed Raelye something so sweet. I had to remind her that pancakes don't automatically come with syrup on them :) Raelye loves them plain.
Raelye is sleeping almost all the way through the night. She wakes up once for a bottle then goes back to sleep. We have weaned completely to the bottle.
Today was challenging at times. Raelye was crabby throughout most of the day. I believe she is getting more teeth is as the drool has increased dramatically in the past few days. She was standing in her playroom and I was in the living room. She pulled up on the babygate and fussed out a few m's and a "Mama" mixed in. She hasn't wanted to eat as many solids in the past few days except what she can chew (this issue reiterates the teething hypothesis). She went to bed tonight then woke back up and wouldn't be patted back down. Daddy brought the bottle back up to us and she drank the rest of it down. She reached up and grabbed two of my fingers and pulled my hand down onto her chest and held her hand on top of mine. Made me forget what a challenge today had been and then I had a hard time putting her down in her bed.