Month Ten (September)

How you have grown Bug. You are now 23lbs, 28.5" long and are definitely showing your independence! You've learned to pull yourself up on furniture and anything willing to stand still or stay put long enough for you to do so. You can also stand balanced on your own for 10-20 secs at a time, and "furniture walk". Your doctor tells me that before I know it you are going to be walking and racing through the house! You are also up to 8 teeth. The bottom two on either side of the front bottom two have slowly been working their way up for about a month now.

Oldest to Youngest.

Her first real cold.

:-( Poor bug is sick today. It hit her late afternoon yesterday. She's miserable, I'm miserable and O has escaped the house by claiming it was his company's Golf Tournament today. Bug has nasal congestion, a bit of a cough/sneeze and was running a small fever last night. I had some Children's Advil on hand but it's just a fever reducer so this morning I bundled her up and went to the drug store for some dye free children's Dimetapp. It seems to have cleared up her nose and at least now she's napping.

Last night we were having such a tough time getting her to sleep we did something we had never done before, put her in the truck and drove around for an hour to get her to sleep. I was scared once we got home she'd wake up during the move from her seat to her bed, but luckily she slept until around 5am. I went in and got her and brought her to bed with us. She ended up flopping on her tummy, bum in the air, head on O's chest. It was rather sweet. :-)

Teething...

Gaahhhh!! We thought she was teething again last week at her photo session, and our suspicions were confirmed today. This afternoon while she was letting out blood curdling screams in my face I saw 2 more teeth had broke through her comes, one on either side of her two front bottom teeth. I've been miserable all day, she's been miserable all day and we both just want the teeth to finish coming in so we can have a break.

I suppose, two coming in at once is better then the six that broke her gums all at once while we were on vacation. For some reason these ones seem to be hurting her a lot more though. :0(

Standing

Last night, O and I and N were in the basement watching a movie. N was sitting on the floor playing with her toys when the next time I looked down at her, she was standing upright without any assistance. I was so surprised I squealed "Natasha!" and she wobbled her last wobble before falling on her butt. heh We can only guess she used her drum to pull herself up and stand, but it's pure theory. :P

She's been sitting up from laying on her back for a couple of weeks now, and will stand up if we give her our hands to hold on to, but this is the first time she's used another object to stand. On top of that she has yet to stand up and balance herself w/o holding one of us. I'm all excited for her to do it again (sort of) but I think we have some time yet before it becomes a regular occurrence.

Little Miss Ladybug

Several weeks ago, as I mentioned in the post below, I ordered a costume from babystyle.com. Now, it was relatively inexpensive ($25), so I was a bit leery of just how high quality it could be for so cheap when I was seeing other ones, that were not even half as cute for $50USD +, but I ordered it anyway, figuring she is not really going to be in it that long, just for photos and certainly not trick or treating, so what the heck.

It finally arrived this afternoon and of course I had to try it on her and take some photos. I'm really glad I ordered the 12-18m size, as I also ordered the 6-12 for a friend's daughter and I don't think it would fit her in 2 months. The big surprise was that O was even excited to take some photos of her in it. He is normally not into this type of thing at all and laughs at me when I 'stage' photos of her.






Hopefully she'll like the costume just as much come Saturday morning when Rosie does her Nine month photo session. She seemed really happy in it tonight. Of course I've not jinx'd myself and she will probably cry when we try and put it on her on Saturday.

Little Fairy Princess

We did her nine month photo shoot at Riley Park this past Thursday, unfortunately by the time the photog got to doing the fairy costume pics, Tash was a tad grumpy (she was actually grumpy most of the shoot, I'll be surprised if we receive any good photos), so this morning before her nap I decided to try my own version on our front lawn. The things we do to our kids..she is going to kill me one day when she sees these.






Of course the one of her with her best smile the wind blew the tutu up, but meh, I still like it even if it's a bit distracting. I think I've taken way too many photos of her, all my tricks to get her to smile are no longer working. heh

We have a studio photo shoot for Saturday (we decided on a back up plan in case the Riley Park photos did not turn out) so hopefully she is in a better mood. She seems to just love R, so I'm hoping they will. R also has tons of props, including tutus and fairy wings, so we'll try again.

I'm also crossing my fingers that her Ladybug Costume will arrive in time (R has halloween props too hehe). My friend who received it (stupid no shipping to cda) said he sent it off 2 weeks ago now, so this would be week three. He sent it UPS, but they transfered it to the mail service. It's only coming from Georgia, I really hope it arrives. I can take her back to Riley Park for pics in the leaves, but I'd really like a couple of professional ones done.

I'm at worry mode now that it got lost in the mail!