only young once

Thursday, January 29, 2009

Try, try again

I was reading a friend's blog who mentioned that their 18 month old just got the knack of eating with utensils. They had introduced her to them at 9 months, but miraculously the other day, she just "got it". We recently have started to let Melodie go at her food. At George Webb's on Saturday, she had a ball trying to eat her hashbrowns, toast and eggs (yes, we do know now, not to give 9 month olds egg whites---she did fine with them, but we'll wait to give them to her again). Of course, she made more of a mess, and the floor tasted more of the breakfast than her tummy did, but she got to feed herself, and loved it. So today I made her some Mac n' Cheese and gave her a spoon to see how she'd do. Umm, my little prodigy did great for a nine month old. Completely unsuccessful with any attempt of using the spoon, and she quickly fisted the spoon with one hand, and food with the other. But hey, it was cute, and I didn't expect her to just start using a spoon at nine months. The one picture that I didn't get, and really wish I would've, was when I got up to change the batteries in the camera and noticed 80% of the bowl of her Mac n' Cheese in the fold of her bib! :) I quickly dumped the food in her bowl, and she quickly grabbed the bib and tried to pull it off, as if to say that she didn't really need it. I could not stop laughing. She's my little cutie.

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

And the pigtails have it..

Melodie has been a lot of fun lately. Yesterday she learned how to sign that she wanted "more milk", which was funny since he had just downed her sippy cup full! Today I figured I'd try pigtails, as her mii character on our wii has pigtails. They turned out pretty cute. The first picture is of her random "talent". One of our friends took it at our Christmas get together. Right now she's sitting on my lap, laughing at the pictures of herself.

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Merry Christmas, Happy New Year and everything else

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Photo DUMP!

I like my plug a lot, it helps me relax...

Want to try it?

I'll just chomp on my camel...it's part of my nativity set.

Do you know what time it is?

It's CRAWLING time....well, almost.

Mommy and Daddy put up a pretty tree for me to play with...I REALLY like the snow flake best.

Mommy found me playing with my baby monitor the other day after my nap....umm, she quickly moved it out of my crib though...now I can't play with it anymore.

Mommy said that Christmas is coming, which means that I have to practice opening presents. I did a great job, although I insisted on sampling the taste of EACH piece of paper I ripped off the package! It didn't taste good, but I figured I'd keep sampling. Maybe some paper will taste good.

I'm a happy kid.

I love my Dad. He kisses me bye-bye when he goes to work, like today! :)