Learning to Crawl!!!

Ms. Anna has reported that Addie has been scooting around to get things. This weekend Addie wanted the laptop and crawled over to it. She isn't lifting up her belly. But oh well scoot crawling/army crawling/Addie Hop is better than no crawling. Right?

After a mommy and daddy reflection, we decided that we probably aren't doing a lot to encourage her to crawl. We continue to play with her constantly on her pallet in the living room with all of her toys. When we leave her alone and sit on the couch, she actually crawls around and gets toys and plays with them!! Who knew that sometime you should leave your child alone??

As the week has progressed the crawl has gotten a little better. Today, I was feeding her Cheetos. Because she loves them! And she grabbed my shirt and pulled her self up to her knees and was getting to her feet. Oh my goodness, it is so super scary. She has no balance and absolutely no safety awareness. She is so going to be bruised up soon.

Please pray for Jeremy and I as our parenting makes a new turn from an infant to a walking baby!

Oh yeah, and I am pretty sure that she is using mama with purpose now. She has called me that 4 times in the last few days. It is absolutely the most precious sound, I have ever heard.

Preparing for the Game!

Addie, Jeremy and I in all of our HOG gear. We got Grammy to come up and take care of Addie.

Razorback Game

Jeremy and I had decided that since this was a long weekend, we wouldn't feel so guilty about being away from Adalynn and we would get some tickets. First we decide to buy tickets so we start with ebay and buy some really great tickets, row 1!!! Then we call up our great friends Eric and Tasha to go with us (they go to every game). However, this is the first game in years that they are NOT going too. They are going to NYC, BLAH!!

So we call the 1st generation Bailey's and convince them that we should tailgate. We ended up with Uncle Nub, Uncle Matt, Uncle Will and Aunt Tracie, Karen and Mike, John and his nephew. It was very enjoyable until Mike got mad at me. I tried to help him pack the car because no one else was helping. I didn't realize that they (everyone else) weren't helping because he was a crazy packer like me. So I learned my lesson sit back and let Mike pack the car.

Addie stayed at home with her Grammy and had a great time. She is trying to get more teeth, has a runny nose, and her ears are bugging her from the teething. She isn't eating a lot of milk right now. The sucking hurts her ears a lot.

9 month check up

Here are Addie's newest measurements-

Weight 18lbs. 12oz 50th percentile
Length 28.5 inches 75th percentile (Now she isn't short?)
Head 18 inches 75th percentile (still has a big head!!)

9 months old on the 26th!!

Now that we are back to school, I realized I probably would not be getting around to this during the week so it is a few days early. Things are changing so quickly it is really hard for me to remember what she is doing that maybe everyone doesn't know about but I will try: Cognitive and Language Milestones:

• Signing "more" when eating
• Waving "bye-bye"
• Uses lots of babbling and inflection
• Protests strongly the removal of something she wants
• Looks for lost things
• Makes /p/ /b/ /m/ /d/ /g/ /l/ sounds
• Has a sweet voice and a mean voice (very funny)

Motor Development (this is the one we are lacking in):

• Sits beautifully with wonderful posture
• Puts all things in her mouth (strings, rocks anything she can find)
• Pushes chest completely off the floor
• Supports weight on hands and knees for a limited amount of time
  
• Scoots backwards on belly
• Spins on belly
• Rolls quickly to whatever she wants
• NO CRAWLING

Other Development:

• 2 bottom teeth
• Eating everything and loving it
• Sleeping through the night about twice a week
• Still have yet to determined an eye color
• Have limited hair but what we have is growing
• Starting to have breakdowns when mommy leaves the room
• Riding in a big girl car seat!! (I need to get a picture)

The most enjoyable thing right now is how funny it is to wake Addie up. She is not on the school schedule yet and she really wants to sleep in until 8:30 or 9. She stretches and whines at 6:30, she is all groggy looking and really has a hard time getting up!!!

Girlz Night

This Friday night, we went to dinner with Alix, Jamie and Maebrie and then we to play for a little while at the Bettinardi's. Addie and Maebrie are getting better together. I sat Addie in Maebrie's bed and Maebrie ran circles around Addie while Addie giggled at her. Maebrie enjoyed the encouragement. I am afraid of what that may mean for the future. They are such sweet girls, Addie went toward Maebrie with her mouth open (maybe it was a bite but we will pretend kiss) and when I said oh kiss the baby, Maebrie opened her mouth and they kissed it was very precious.