Beautiful girls!!!
Developmentally she has definitely hit a stride. The highlights for this month include: crawling, waving, babbling, blowing kisses, eating, and teething.
Emory is finally crawling. Not in the traditional sense, but she scoots on her bottom. This is absolutely priceless. Liberty did the EXACT same thing. Scott and I are convinced its genetic and may just have another baby just to see if she will scoot on her bottom as well =). She does it a little bit differently than Liberty did. It is the cutest thing ever and she has gotten quite good at it.
She will now wave bye bye. Actually, she waves all the time. She has two wave variations. The first is the typically backwards baby wave where she flexes her little fingers. The second is her big wave where she uses her arms (usually both at the same time). She thinks its so funny and will usually wave just to show you she is happy.
She is talking more and more. She hasn't officially said any words yet, but she does say "Uh Oh" a lot. She will usually say it if she drops something or if something doesn't go quite like she anticipated. While she frequently uses it in the correct context she will also just scoot around the house or sit in her carseat saying "Uh Oh, Uh Oh, Uh Oh." For this reason, I am not considering it her first word.
She will also blow kisses now. It started out as her just copying what I was doing, but now she does it all the time. She has also "made it her own" by not just blowing but by putting the back of her hand against her mouth and sort of waving the kisses to you. It's darling, of course. She also gives real kisses now. Those big open mouth baby kisses, complete with the "ooo wah" sound that are absolutely precious. She also thinks its really funny to pretend she is going to kiss me and then instead blows on my lips. Funny girl!
Here's a video of most of the developmental milestones listed above. We couldn't get her to blow kisses for anything!
Emory will basically eat anything on a spoon! She has moved on to foods with more texture like chicken and pork. She is getting better and better at feeding herself. Right now her favorite is graham crackers. She absolutely loves them. She has had some success feeding herself fruit, but its a little slippery and hard for her to hold onto. Most of it ends up in her lap.
She finally has one tooth and another about to pop through any day now. She has been horribly fussy. I hope since it took so long for her to start teething that they don't all start coming in at once!
Playing in the water at the zoo =)
She still has the greatest smile in the world. She is so happy--smiling and laughing all the time. She loves to be outside. I can't put her in the grass at our house so I usually put her in the pack-n-play. Surprisingly she will sit in there for quite a while without getting upset. My parents recently bought Liberty a new swingset and we attached a baby swing to it. Emory absolutely loves it. I've never seen a baby love to swing so much. She has almost outgrown her other swing. When she sits in it she always wants to lean too far forward and it will stop swinging. This, of course, makes her mad.
She is laughing so hard
This video will make you dizzy, but its so cute to hear her laugh!
She is still not sleeping through the night. I'm not sure what I am going to do with her. She wakes up every few hours or so. She usually goes right back to sleep if I give her binky back. I usually end up nursing her at least twice though. She usally naps 2-3 times a day now and she naps in her bed. She is really good at putting herself to sleep for her naps, but refuses to do this when its bedtime. I'm not sure what the difference is, but for some reason she doesn't like to go to bed at night.
This was fun until she leaned too close and the water sprayed her right in the face. She was done after that.
Time is flying by so quickly. I can't believe she will be one so soon. I LOVE LOVE LOVE her!
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