Laughing all the Time

As of lately, you really love playing the "where's Kieran" game. Sometimes you even jump from being startled as we turn back towards you saying "there's Kieran" but it's almost like you love that even more than not being startled. It's crazy!! You start laughing hysterically. Here's a video of you playing with daddy. What a sweet pea you are. I could listen to you laugh all day...

Bottle Holding and Soap Watching!

You're such a big girl now that you're starting to try and hold your own bottle. It still weighs too much when it's full for you to be able to hold it on your own, but here's a photo of you trying...

You also seem to think you're big enough to watch soap opera's too! Mom always records General Hospital and watches it when she gets home from work. Today, I turned it on and was in the kitchen picking up when I looked over to find you intently watching it. It was hysterical. I told your dad you were starting young...

Daddy even came over to pick you up to play with you and you can see from the photo below that you just couldn't tear your eyes away. You're an addict already, how silly!! : )

Bouncing Again

You're in your bouncer all the time now and you're getting more and more expressive. Here's a video of you trying to tell mommy that you're hungry...

Here are just some more cute photos from that day...

Hands & Toys in Mouth

Since the beginning of the month, you've been practicing sucking on your own hands. Every time we turn around you have your hands in your mouth and occasionally we'll find you sucking your thumb. I wouldn't classify you as a thumb-sucker but you do stumble on them occasionally while figuring out your hands...


Just recently you've been trying soooo hard to figure out how to put a toy in your mouth on your own. You've been so close on multiple occasions and then you get so frustrated that you start crying and we have to take your toy away in order to calm you back down. Today, you actually did it for the first time and we were so excited for you...

Here's a video of you trying to put your toy in your mouth and finally succeeding...

Playing Again

Mommy was trying to eat up every second of her last few weeks of maternity leave with you so she made you pose a whole lot. Here are some more photos. This is also the blankie that Shusha made for you. Thank you so much Shush!! You'll get to meet Shusha around Christmas time when we visit the Hatcher clan.

You thought it would be funny to stick your tongue out at mommy...

Here you are kissing your lamb...

New Bouncer

Since you loved baby Lillian's bouncer so much we went out and picked one up for you. You love it!! It's so funny to watch you because you get so serious when you're looking at the little yellow raccoon and you just chat it up with the blue little owl. You like smiling at the hedgehog too, but that raccoon, he must have done something bad to make you so serious with him...

Holding Toys!

Today was the first day that you really started trying to put your toys into your mouth if we helped you put them in your hand. You were practicing and practicing with daddy, having a great time...



Next thing I know, I came out of the bedroom to find that you and daddy had both fallen asleep. I snuck in a photo before you both woke up. All that playing must have really made you tired. Look at my two babies together...


While you've been working on your toy holding and toy eating skills, you've also gotten really good at blowing bubbles...



And of course, these are just more cute photos from the same day :)

Big Girl Sit Up Time, AGAIN!

So while daddy was at work I thought we would practice our big girl sit up skills again so we headed into the office to give it a try. I think it's hysterical how you can see your mood progression in these photos. You started out okay with it at first but by the end were definitely tired of mommy trying to make you sit up. Looks like by the end, mom had given you a migraine...

Reading

Daddy loves to read to you while you play on your activity mat. You just kick and kick away while you listen to him read to you. You love playing with daddy...



Here's a video of daddy reading to you (sorry for the sound quality, you'll probably have to turn the volume up really high in order to hear it)...

Posing Again!

Today we were in your room playing with you and discovered that you really like your pink fuzzy rug that lays at the foot of your crib. It's so soft and fuzzy that you were having a blast kicking around on it...

Then I was trying to make you pose, yet again...

You worked up quite an appetite with all that playing and posing...

And afterwards you went into what we like to refer to as your "milk coma." See for yourself! You are so full after your bottle that you have no energy to do anything and you just pass out :) You're my little limp noodle...

Bracelet?

So daddy was working with you today on learning how to grip your toys. You had been holding this ring in your hand for a long time and had a strong grip going. Daddy and I started working on some things in the kitchen and left you to play in your boppy. The next thing we knew you had let it slide down your arm and made it into a bracelet! What a smart little girl! Already learning from her mom and aunties how to accessorize : )

Play Time

You have really been loving to play with the musical star and mirror that came from the playmat that Nana and Papaw got you. You will watch the lights on the star for a while but you really love the mirror!! Daddy says it's because you're a vain little girl, but I choose to believe it's because you're learning!!!... : )



Here is dad keeping an eye on you while you play with your musical star and mirror.