Little Baby Clements: 2010

It's official, I'm the world's worst blogger! At least I'm getting to this now instead of when she is 5! We are coming up on birthday number 1 in less than a week! Time flies! And she has changed so much in the last 6 months! It's been so much fun! I was reading my last post...yeah, about all that fussiness...it was all due to ear infections. In mid November her ear started draining and continued off and on until February when we FINALLY got tubes (one of the small joys of living in a small town is that you have to wait for the specialist to come to you. It would have been later because her original appt was delayed due to weather, so we drove to Mason City to have it done ASAP!) Up until then she still had no interest in moving much. Come to find out it was probably because she had no balance and heard things like she had her head under water! Poor baby. So she got the tubes on February 10 and within a week and a half, she was crawling and pulling herself up!

She took her first steps on March 18th. For about a month she would only walk to me or Tom...not to the couch or a toy. She had to have someone soft to fall into because she couldn't figure out that whole stopping thing! But for the past 3 weeks or so, she has been all over the place. She's a quick lil thang too!

And remember by ultrasound picture with her hand on her forehead where I said if she's a girl, she'll be a drama queen??? I was soooooo right!!!! :) When she falls onto her butt, a lot of times she starts "crying". And when we told her "no" a few months ago..."waaaaa"...tears and everything! And she tears up so easy! She'd be a great dramatic actress, pull out a tear at the drop of a dime!

She is saying mama and dada...and has been for a couple of months. But her first word besides that is "Hi!" I don't know if any of the videos I have on here have me saying Hi in kind of a sing-songy voice...but that's how I say hi to her...apparently a lot! She came around the corner one morning waving and saying Hi! And she started giving her lil dolls kisses the other day too. Mommy even got one last night! :)

We're still working on the sign language. She will sign milk now...not very consistent, but she does it. And she knows all done and more, too. I think she mixes those two up though! She started real finger foods around the beginning of April. She loves ham, carrots, peaches, and applesauce. She's eating chocolate cheerios as I write this and seems to be enjoying those very much (thanks Steph!).

Sometimes I think I should put a helmet on her lil head. This child gets more bruises... She's split her lip open twice (thought we were gunna lose a tooth once!)...(no stitches needed thank god!), I don't know many bruises she's had on her face from doing faceplants in numerous locations. Right now, she's got a big ol' honker right in the middle of her forehead (imagine an Ash Wednesday smudge) from her first run-in with Murphy. See, Murphy likes to hurdle things. We now know that he can't hurdle a 1-year-old. Yikes. We both had our backs turned and just heard the thud and wail, so we don't know exactly what happened, but I think she got kicked by his back leg which then made her wack her lil face on the floor...so she has a sister bruise on her lil cheek. Stupid dog. Lesson learned.

So other than a few bruises, we're all happy and healthy! I took a new job in January, so I'm finally on a normal day schedule. That has been an extremely welcome change! I love what I'm doing, so that's even better! So there's a quick summary of the last 6 months, and here are some pictures to get you up to date too!

December 2009: 7 Months Old