Thursday, July 23, 2009

A little Avery Update

I thought I might catch you up on Avery's latest achievements.
1. I can't remember if I posted this already and I am too lazy to go back and read, but she has her 1st tooth! It came in a few weeks ago, and she is loving some hard foods to crunch! Her new favorite thing is to put a cracker, teething biscuit, or carrot in her mouth and gnaw it down! She has enough hand-eye coordination to do it herself, and it can keep her busy for 30 minutes!
2. She can hold her own bottle! Yay!
3. She can sit up on her own, and stay there for several minutes! Then she flops over backwards, so we must still put pillows behind her to break her fall.
4. The kid is almost crawling. She has been scooting and rolling for a while, but she has just now started pulling herself up into the crawl position. She is lacking the coordination to actually start the crawl, so she flops down on her belly and then flails her arms and legs in an effort to move...it's quite funny. I am not looking forward to this milestone though. It means I actually have to baby proof our house and yard which will be extremely difficult!
5. She sleeps through the night (most nights). We are still having an occasional icky night when she isn't feeling well or something is bothering her (temperature, her own scooting that smashes her into the bumpers in her crib, noisy parents, people who want to look at her after she is already asleep). Her normal sleeping schedule is 7pm-6am, and then an hour long morning nap and a 2 hour afternoon nap. If she gets in her naps, she sleeps great. If not, it's going to be a long night for Mommy!
She is just such a joy, and is getting more fun every day!

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