Yesterday we celebrated the munchkin's 9 month birthday!
Here are a few of her favorite things to do at the moment:
-Wave to anyone and everyone.
-Make sure I keep anyone and everyone at a safe distance, with the exception of babies and kids.
-Kiss me and her daddy.. and her toys, and her mirror, and her blankets, and our knees..
-Pull up on furniture and cruise from couch to coffee table to chair to anything within reach.
-Shake her noisy toys when we say "Shake it!"
-Toss her paci out of the crib.***(see below)
-Dance when she hears music.
-Laugh and crawl really fast when I give her that "I'm gonna get you" look.
-Eat exciting new things like cinnamon and yogurt and pasta.
-Point at our shirt buttons when we say "Where's the button?"
-Sign "all done" when she's full (or just ready to get down from her highchair because she can see a cheerio on the ground).
-Say "dada" about EVERYTHING. It took almost 9 months of Matt saying "Say dada" for her to finally give in and say it. Now she says it all day long. She's even replaced "baby" and "puppy" with "dada." I guess she's making up for all the time she made him wait.
-Grow more and more teeth. She now has two little ones on the bottom and FOUR big ones on top!
***About the paci.. I've been entertaining the idea of doing away with it. She only uses it for nap time and bed time.. and every once in a while to keep my sanity in a moving vehicle. I just haven't found the extra oomph to go ahead and do it. What do you mommies/daddies/opinionated folks think about the paci? I won't be offended. I honestly considered not even offering one in the beginning. I didn't buy any before she arrived, I only had the one from the hospital. The reason I ended up giving her one is because of this statement: "You can take away her paci, but you can't take away her thumb." As adorable as a thumb-sucking baby is, I didn't want to fight that battle as she grew up. Sometimes it's unavoidable, but I figured by giving her a paci I was avoiding it as much as I could. So really, any and all advice/ideas/horror stories/success stories would be much appreciated before I set sail on this possibly terrifying and/or rewarding voyage!
On a lighter note,
L is for laundry.
Haha! LOVE L is for Laundry, put 'em to work early ;) And I constantly tell my mom "I can take away her paci, but I can't take away her thumb"! I am constantly trying to get her fingers out of her mouth and stick her paci in instead. But she really likes to have things in her mouth now, so I don't know how to handle taking it away. I have heard of cutting the tip off and teaching them that it's broken (apparently it doesn't feel the same when the tip is cut off), having them give it to smaller babies and teaching that she is a big girl now (although she is still kind of little)... so I don't know if I helped... ha, sorry! Good Luck!
ReplyDeleteNate was not a pacifier lover but Braden sure was. I never wanted to take it away bc I selfishly wanted to sleep at night! We let him have it until about his first birthday and then one day just threw them all out. When he looked for them we just said they were was lost and it didn't take very long for him to stop crying for it at night. It was not too terrifying :)
ReplyDeleteok so I too am in the midst of a paci dilema. At about 12 months we made the big switch and now Laney only gets her paci at naptime and bedtime. Most people say it's easier to take it away when they are younger, but she just loves her paci, and if that means I get to sleep through the night then she can have her stinkin' paci:) But she's almost 2 now so we are thinking about taking it away for good... eek. Someone once asked me, Have you ever seen a grown person with a pacifier?? NO. They will lose interest. That made me feel a little better... I guess for now i will just pick my battles and let her be a baby and have her paci at night:) Oh I dread the day we take that paci away!
ReplyDeletei guess i'm different but we haven't taken away the paci until 3 for our girls. we switched to only bed and nap arround 2 and then at 3 made them give the "yier" to the fishes, they threw it off the pier, and they were totally fine with out it at that point...just worked for us
ReplyDeleteYou don't want paci advice from your mother, it wasn't pretty.
ReplyDeleteI know you will handle it perfectly, and since you have the perfect child, I have no doubt that she will handle it perfectly as well!!!!
Why do I have an overwhelming urge to do laundry right now?????
Love the article! With Reg and Jess I cut a slit in it or cut part of the top off and told them it was broken. Seemed like they were well over 1... you are younger and should remember better than I do :). They seemed to understand broken and really did'nt "like" it as much after that. Then we would let it get lost or not pay attention to giving it to them and sometimes they really cared and we would find it under the blanket other times they just forgot. It was a gradual thing - rather uneventful but Reagan was well over 1.
ReplyDeleteHi Jenna...I ran into your Mom and Dad at Kohls and I shared with them how much I looked forward to and enjoyed reading each of your blogs. Kristen and I were reading it together the other night and catching up on your previous blog...we ooh and ahh over all the pics and videos...thank you for sharing Paige with us....as far as paci's ...Megan had her thumb... (until High School...she'd shoot me for sharing that, lol). Kristen on the otherhand did have a paci and I sent her to my sisters one weekend and when she came back my sister sent her paci-less (is that a word)...anyway I recommend sending her to your Mom's and let her do it, lol...Kel?...Kathi Bruce
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