Lazy Sunday morning

After a night of not much sleeping, I convinced Annabelle to hang out in mommy bed for a while this morning, so we could rest a little.  She claimed we didn't need any rest, but she was a good sport about hanging out and looking cute.

Random photos

There is no particular story to go with any of these pictures, but I hadn't blogged in a while and thought some of you might be in need of new Annie pics.  We are both doing great!  Annie is so happy these days and loves to smile at everyone we meet with her huge, open mouthed grin.  And she even has two teeth to show off with the grin.  We went to the pediatrician today for Annie's somewhat belated 6 month check up.  She weighs 16 lbs 11oz (51st percentile) and is 2 foot 2.75 inches tall (71st percentile).  As you can see from the pictures, she's been doing a lot of eating to maintain her weight.  Her thoughts so far: bananas and peaches are awesome! Apples,pears, carrots and sweet potatoes are also pretty good.  She's willing to eat spinach, green beans and blueberries, but does NOT care for peas.

Annie can't crawl yet, but she's close.  And she can get around pretty well with her rolling and pivoting.  We were at a birthday party last weekend where most of the other babies had stay at home moms or nannies.  Annie quickly showed off her daycare skills - she rolled all around the play area and stole all the other kids toys. Yeah!  I'm proud of you baby!

First time on the swings

I think the picture speaks for itself - she loved it!  

Up To No Good

Annie doesn't like napping in her crib.  She doesn't like it! She feels very strongly about this - the crib is fine for bedtime, but at nap time she'll cry if I put her in there.  I don't like her not napping. I feel pretty strongly about this, but I don't really care where she naps, so we compromised, and she now naps on the floor of her room without complaint, all snugly on a folded up blanket and with pillows all around her to keep her contained.  Here is a picture of her nice napping spot:

I was happy that we'd worked out a good compromise, and she's been napping peacefully in this spot for weeks.  So you can imagine my surprise when I peeked in to check on her today, and found this:

Whatcha up to, Annie?

You aren't eyeing those cords, or electrical outlets are you?

Sigh.  I guess maybe it's time to baby proof the baby room.

A nice weekend

I had a three day weekend for the MLK holiday.  Annie and I took some walks and met up with a few friends, but mostly we just had a really nice time hanging out and playing with all her toys.  She was happy to show off all the new tricks she's learned at daycare.  She is getting really good at rolling around to get to her favorite toys.  But she'd REALLY like to be able to crawl.  She's working on it all the time, and sometimes even wiggles so much that she makes a little forward progress.

What could go wrong here?

Hey Bert - remember how I said Annabelle's getting better at moving around?

Watch out Bertie-cat!

Bert's ears look delicious!

Food

Well, sort of - does rice cereal count as food?  Here are the obligatory cute pictures of Annie's first feeding.  She surprised me by loving it!  I was fully prepared for her to spit each spoonful back out, but once she figured out what was going on, she got really into the eating and started complaining that I was going too slow between spoonfuls. Good job, Annabelle!  Next week we'll move on to mashed up veggies, mmmm!

We practiced sitting in the high chair the day before.  It went well, so today we moved on to the cereal.

Futon Fun

Folding up the futon is fun, hooray!

Wait a second...where will Nana sleep?

What do you mean Nana's leaving?

But I'm so little, how could she leave me??? Noooo!