Anna is 10 months old today. Oh my goodness, how this year is flying by! Anna is very active right now—she’s pretty much constantly crawling or pulling up on things or trying to climb me, which made it a little hard to get good pictures today, but I got a few.
Look, Anna likes doing laundry just like her Mommy! Right now she’s better at taking things out of the dryer than putting them in, but she’ll eventually learn both. :)
Anna is so not interested in her toys right now; instead, she’s having a blast crawling around and exploring and getting into things. She’s realized she can go wherever she wants to now, and she’s lovin’ it!
The other day she crawled under the support bar on the legs of her high chair and then stood up under it. It was great fun… until she realized she had no idea how to get out. But Mommy came to the rescue. :)
Here she is, after pulling up all by herself to play with her musical table toy:
And crawling on video:
Well, Anna is fully mobile now and has claimed the whole house for herself, and has left Sasha wondering about this new critter that can get around just like a puppy. I’d say she started “real” crawling right at Christmas; my parents had said several times that she would be “crawling by Christmas” and they were right. Christmas Eve was the first time she took more than two or three “steps” up off her tummy, and by Christmas Day she was in full crawl mode.
It’s funny—for a while, she always stayed in whatever room I had put her in; it didn’t occur to her that she could leave one room and go to another if she wanted. Then one day while she was playing on the floor in her room, she ventured out of the door and into the hallway, and life hasn’t been the same since. It’s so cute to see her coming down the hallway from the bedroom to the living room, grinning from ear to ear, obviously quite proud of herself.
She also started pulling up to her feet, although I’ve only actually seen her do this once. Usually I look away for a moment, and when I look back, she’s up on her feet. She doesn’t like the performance pressure, I guess.
All this activity is apparently making her burn a lot of calories—she’s only gained 2 ounces over the past month! Are ya kiddin’ me?!? That puts her at 14 lb. 14 oz. After her last check up on 12/1 when she had gained a whole pound, I thought she was finally ready to start growing again after taking a little hiatus. All through December she seemed to be getting heavier and heavier, and I was sure she must have gained at least another pound. But it was just wishful thinking. We’re looking at ways to get some more calories in her. But don’t worry—she seems to be perfectly healthy in every other way; she’s just little. She’s certainly strong—there’s no doubt about that!
In the afternoon, we dressed Anna in her Addie’s Santa outfit (which my long-time readers may remember from last year) and headed over to my parents’ house, where we spent the rest of the day with them and my brother and his family.
We had our first Christmas morning with Anna at home.
Look—someone filled Anna’s stocking! (This was actually my first stocking when I was a baby!)
… for another month-birthday update. Anna is 9 months old today! She wanted to wear her big-girl jeans and sweater to show everyone how grown up she is; no little baby rompers today! She’s all but officially crawling; she’s still tummy-crawling wherever she pleases, but I’ve seen her take a “step” or two (I don’t know what you call it for crawling) up on her hands and knees. She’s going to figure it out any minute now and really take off. And she’s already pulling up on her knees! Good gracious, she’s about to turn the house upside-down, isn’t she? She’s having a grand time exploring her surroundings.
This month, Anna gave me the privilege of wishing her a happy birthday right at 1:19 A.M., when she was born. Poor thing woke up crying her eyes out around 1:00; I guess she had a bad dream? I found her sitting up in her crib with her face sopping wet with tears, so I picked her up and she immediately melted into my arms and calmed down. Ahh, some things just give you the warm fuzzies, even in the middle of the night. I rocked her back to sleep, and since it was so close, I stayed there until 1:19 and then whispered “happy birthday,” which caused her to startle a little bit but not really wake up.
This is one of those “I haven’t blogged in a week so I should write something” posts.
Let’s see… Anna can push herself from lying down up into a sitting position by herself now. Consequently, we lowered her crib mattress a couple of notches—she’ll be pulling up before we know it. She can do the soldier belly-crawl wherever she wants to go, and she can get up on her hands and knees and kind of go backwards, but she doesn’t really know what’s happening. It’s kind of funny—she looks at me with this mildly distressed look as if to say, “Help! That’s not where I wanted to go…”
Our other baby, Sasha, is still doing well (David wrote an update here). She appears very healthy, lymph nodes are still down, and she has no evidence of any more tumors right now!
We’re almost done with our Christmas shopping. Before we went, David wasn’t all that excited about getting Anna presents. He said (and he’s right) that she won’t know what’s going on, she’ll just play with the paper, etc. But then we browsed through the toys, and he changed his tune—he wanted to get her everything! We restrained ourselves, though, to two toys, a couple of warm sleepers in the next size up, and a few little stocking stuffers.
Anna now gets an OOY—Ornament of the Year. She helped us… er, watched us… hang it up last night.
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