"Making the decision to have a child - it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking outside your body."
-Elizabeth Stone

Monday, November 16, 2009

Happy .5 Birthday!


Nate says I should just let the pictures speak for themselves. :)



She has started to pull herself up onto things. I have set her in her crib a couple of times to do something and this is what I turn around to. Time to move the crib down!

That's food - not snot. :) She has now tried sweet potatoes, applesause, beans, peas, bananas, and...I think I'm forgetting something. She loves most of them! (not so much the beans...) She's a very good eater too, which is good. :)



This has replaced the creepy growl. Nate calls it chirping. I think that's pretty accurate.

Also, her sweet little kisses have now turned into "don't try to make me kiss you or I'll attack your face!" She gets really bugged when Nate tries to kiss her a bunch. She'll push his face away and everything. It's pretty hilarious.


She has two teeth! Well, one is JUST about to pop through. I didn't even know she was getting them. She hasn't been more grumpy than normal or anything. I mean, she slobbers a ton, but she's done that for a couple of months. I hope teething is always that easy.

I don't know her stats because her appointment isn't until the end of the month. I tried to weigh her at our grandma's house and I think she's somewhere around 14 or 15 pounds...

She's tall - I know that. Well, either tall or way too skinny. So many of her pants are short on her. They fit her skinny little body, but are too short. :)

She is SUPER mobile. She can't exactly crawl yet, though she does get onto her hands and knees and at least move her knees (hasn't figured out the hands yet). Despite not "crawling" she will do whatever it takes to get to what she wants.

She sleeps mostly through the night. Usually she'll wake up a couple of times at night and just need her pacifier, but I never have to feed her until 6:30 or 7.

We sure love that girl! :)

6 comments:

Becki said...

you should tell her about the nutritional glory of beans and see if that doesn't change her mind.

she's a pretty reasonable kid, so I don't see why it wouldn't.

Shannon said...

Wow, so that about summed up our conversation but it was WAY more fun to talk to you. You probably were thinking, doesn't she ever read the blog? I love the latest pictures, who is that girl? Cute cute.

AJ said...

Seriously so cute. And watch out she looks like she is getting more feisty! And the pants too short, but fitting the waist? Sounds like she is like her cousin Stella. It doesn't really change.

altanoreida said...

I absolutely LOVE the look on her face in the first picture. love you lady!

Yomama said...

Perfect post. Perfect. Now can I just come hold the girl???
Feisty, skinny, adorable, precocious, handles the teething pain, sometimes loud and often unpredictable... Yep, Nathan and Alisa's child, all right!
Christmas is too far away... But have a glorious Thanksgiving!!
So much love,
Yomama

Yomama said...

hahhahh
she's a cutie!!!

in the second picture she looks like a cute little girl version of MAX from WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE .
its cute

love you guys
--Mel