twenty seven

GRACE, you are on the move! you army crawl to get what you'd like and if you don't feel up to it you yell.
it's delightful.
some other happy learnings: you have begun to try to sing along with me and it comes out blahblah bah bah gah gah gah dah dah but it is wonderful.
you like to hit things together to make noise when there is music of any kind, and you are just beginning to splash in the tub.
you are pulling yourself up on things (or trying to rather) and it's been causing all sorts of bumps and bruises for you, even if i'm right there- you'll take a nose dive into the carpet or the table and look back at me like "how could you let that happen?!"

you are mastering the sippy cup, you'd rather throw it around than drink out of it and you loooove finger foods. especially pulled pork with bbq sauce. you suck it in and lick your fingers of all the sauce.

on saturday last week you woke up with a bloody ear so i took you to the doctors and he said your EARDRUM had burst!!!! i just about screamed. you didn't complain at all, so i had no idea. i thought you had just scratched your ear and made it bleed! (which you had done before and i took you to the doc and he said you were just congested)

anyhow, you are now on strawberry amoxicillin but you seem to be feeling just fine, no crying no fussiness, you are a trooper.
AND your first top tooth is coming in! (the right one facing you) (your left one) all this is happening in one week!

you are a champion baby.

you are so smiley and you hate being left alone. you like to play with the fridge letter magnets and the xylaphone. your favorite thing to do is get into trouble.
i looked over at you the other day and somehow you had gotten into a box of tissues and was pulling them out and ripping them up into tiny tiny pieces all over yourself.
you looked like a little snowman.

you are taking naps in your crib finally! so i dont have to worry about you falling out of bed or anything.

on sunday you were introduced to your very first baby doll (actually it was your cousin bella's and she left it at grandmas)
you were in LOVE with her. you would pat her head and squeeel and hug her and touch her face. it's amazing how i can already see you will be such a wonderful mom (if the time comes for you)

you also have developed a love for hair. you think my hair is so funny. i tickle your face with it and you pull and pull and then try to feed it to me.

you are such a sweet baby. your hair is getting so long and you are wearing 18 month and 9 month old clothes. you just turned 8 months on sunday.

your favorite thing to do in church is stand on the pew and look back at everybody, especially the babies.

you are not shy about burping or farting. which i find particularly hilarious. (i'll grow up before you i promise)

i love you little girl, it is a wonder to watch you discover this world for yourself.

love,
mom