Well, we did one of Maddy's favorite activities today! She stood on the couch and watched the garbage truck go by! She loves to watch the garbage truck!!! She waves to the people as they pick up our trash. Once, they caught sight of her and they waved back! It was the CUTEST thing! Two grown men, grinning ear-to-ear baby waving (open and closed fingers) at Maddy. It was awesome.
I can really see that she's understanding language. Today, she was playing with a toy and I said, "Maddy, where's your blankie?" She stopped what she was doing, looked at me, crawled across the room to her blankets on the floor (that she pulls down there from a chair) and rolls around in them. She's done other things like that, too. If she has something she shouldn't have I ask her, "May I have it?" And then she hands it to me.
I'm starting to try her on regular sippy cups with cold milk. As of yet, she can't stand them. I tried them with juice as well and she doesn't like that either. We are mixing her bottles with a little over 1/2 milk now. So it's mainly milk and just some formula. By the Monday after Thanksgiving I'd like to have her on just plain milk! She doesn't seem to mind the milk/formula mix! I'm still wondering about her eating. She will pick up certain items on her tray and put them in her mouth, but not too many. I'd like to see her eat more solids than she is now. She won't put peaches, pears, bananas or the like in her mouth and gags if I give it to her. She loves her cherrios, fruit puffs, peas and carrots though. She also likes mozzarella. cheese with hummus. She also likes what Matt and I eat for dinner, but won't pick it up off her tray. She'd rather us feed it to her! She STILL isn't holding her bottle. It's not that she's not capable of doing it--she's simply too lazy and likes us doing it for her! Well, it won't be for much longer anyway, because once she's on milk I'm switching to cups which we WON'T hold for her. I guess I should really enjoy feeding the bottle anyway, since, not long from now, it'll all be over!
Today she turned around from the couch, saw me about 3 feet away, took one of my hands, and walked towards me two steps to get to me. She's getting there! Maddy is still calling me dada most of the time though. Sometimes it will come out baba or mama if she's really thinking about it. But most of the time it's still dada. She still says kitty now and again, but she's in a quiet stage right now just taking it all in.
Maddy has been enjoying putting things 'in' lately instead of 'out'. That has been a lot of fun for us! She puts her toys away, puts cherrios back into their travel container, puts cherrios in my mouth, puts books into her basket, puts toys in other toys. It's been fun! I need to pull out her stacking cups and see what she can do with those now!
She's also been climbing into her toy baskets to get at the TV. Here's a picture of her doing it! She knows she's not supposed to, as well!
Tomorrow my parents come in the morning! It will be great to see them! They will be showing up during Maddy's first nap, though, so maybe I'll try putting her down a bit early.
We were supposed to get the carseats checked today because it's time we turn them around (ok 6 days early, but the weight is right). There is a carseat station going on at our local Babies R Us but we didn't get the chance to turn them around last night. They almost always have to fix them anyway. I love the guys who do our seats. They are GREAT and really put their heart and weight into it. They are local policemen and really know their stuff! Normally we take it to the police station but they aren't accepting car seat checks right now, so that's why we wer going to do the Babies R Us thing. Oh well, I'll need to call other police stations to see if I can get them in there instead. It's really important to get your seats checked!!! Here's the webpage to find the closest carseat station nearest you! http://www.seatcheck.org/
My workout was annoying today. About 25 minutes into it Maddy started to make a couple noises but I was able to get through the 30 minutes. Then I jumped off and ran into the laundry and grabbed the clothes from the washer and threw them out on the line really fast. Then I ran back in, tiptoed past Maddy's room and I heard her making small noises, jumped in the shower, was out 2 minutes later and dressed in three. Not that my showers are normally all that slow (contrary to my dad's belief), but I use soap on my face, a shampoo/conditioner in one and a shower gel. When I get out I put on lotion, hair stuff and face stuff. It takes me about 10-12 minutes to shower and get dressed. Today it took me 5. Of course, I skipped a lot of what I normally do. Now I'm downstairs and she's NOT MAKING NOISES ANYMORE! Argh.
I want to clean a bit before my parents get here. Nothing too crazy, but that will be during her next nap.
Mom informed me yesterday morning that the Turkey will IN FACT defrost too soon if I left it in the fridge, so I put it back in the freezer yesterday. Hard to imagine something that frozen solid will defrost in time (or too early, in this case).
Well, Ladies and Gents! That's it for today! I may not be around a whole lot in the next week, but I will try to pop in now and again. I'm glad to hear you all are enjoying my blog and photos. I enjoy putting them up! Have a great one!
Tea of the day: Ahmad Mango Black Tea
WO of the day: 30 minutes elliptical and quick stretching. Eating was bad, a 1 yesterday.