Magnetism. It's complicated.

Lucy's toy du jour is a set of animal magnets that she loves to transport back and forth from the dishwasher to the fridge.  Here she is learning that magnets don't stick to everything (and standing unassisted for a split second!).

11 Months Old

The L-Dub is 11 months old!  Here are some highlights from the past month.

She now rolls in a big girl car seat.  I think she likes it.

She has two teeth.

 Her favorite snacks are Mum Mums.

She is constantly on the move these days!  Never still, always moving, always exploring.  She also loves to shout and make silly noises.

Can't believe Miss Crazypants is turning ONE next month!!!

Happy Mother's Day!

I had a wonderful Mother's Day.  My parents came to San Francisco and we spent a lot of time playing with Lucy, who is doing new things every day.  Right now she particularly enjoys peek-a-boo, being chased, and reading "touch and feel" books.  Here she is playing skype peek-a-boo with her Auntie Kate and Uncle Lee in Boston.

This Mother's Day sure beats last year's when I was stuck in a hospital bed and strapped to a fetal monitor all day.  Can you believe it has been a year since that whole ordeal?!  The one-year anniversary of my hospital admittance was May 10.  It was a reflective day for me, and I felt extra thankful for the little things, like being able to walk around my house, pet the cats, go outside, and hang out with Erik.  But most of all I felt tremendous gratitude for the health and happiness of the Littlest Warrior!  We are so blessed that everything turned out so well and that all of it now seems like a distant memory.  What a year it has been!

10 Months Old!

Little Lady face

Can you believe the LW is only 2 months away from turning a year old?!  Here are some highlights from the past month.

• We have teeth!  She cut her two bottom front teeth a few days ago.  You can't see them yet, but you can feel them.  
• She's now eating finger foods pretty much exclusively.  At some point she decided that she wants to do things herself (I have no idea where she gets that from) and started pushing the spoon away when we tried to feed her.  So now we just give her whatever we're eating, cut up into little pieces.  And man, can she eat!  She throws back almost everything we put in front of her and can eat some pretty impressive quantities.  I hear it's common for them to become pickier as they get older, so I'm enjoying this phase while it lasts!

Italian meatball soup

• She's crawling all over the place and can pull herself up to standing (very proudly, I might add).  

• She claps and dances to music.   
• She is consistently going to bed between 7:00-8:00 pm and waking up around 7:00 am.  She'll occasionally wake up once in the middle of the night, but it's pretty rare these days.  
• LUCY IS SUPER STOKED THAT THE WARRIORS MADE THE PLAYOFFS!!!  Having been born on Championship Day last year, the NBA Playoffs are in her blood.

• Most importantly, Lucy is one happy little girl.  She smiles and claps all the time, cracks up when she's tickled, and is starting to hug and "kiss" us.  This is such a fun age and we are really enjoying it! 

Little Sleeper

Well rested and happy.

The big news around here is that Lucy has slept through the night for 3 nights in a row!  And I'm talking sleeping through the night for reals.  Usually there is at least one night waking around 3-4:00 am.  But lately the LW has been hitting the hay around 7-8:00 pm and sleeping until 7-8:00 am.  She's also getting better at going down drowsy, but awake, rather than needing to be rocked or bounced to sleep.  Hopefully these good sleep habits will last!

Mobile Monkey

Lucy is doing much better!  Her cough is mostly gone and last night she slept through the night for the first time in a while.  She is crawling all over the house and is having all sorts of fun exploring her new world.  She seems to be a much happier girl now that she's mobile and has some independence.  I feel like she went through a frustrating phase around the 8-month mark because she wanted to move so badly but couldn't quite figure it out.  Now she has the ability to not only investigate things, but also follow us from room to room when we move out of sight.

The adventures of a crawler!

Maybe it's just me, but it seems like she's grown up A LOT in the past 2 weeks. The crawling seems to have ushered in a slew of new big girl developments.  She's also eating cheerios now, trying to copy us when she babbles, and just generally LOOKING older.  They're not lying when they say kids grow up fast!

Here's mommy having a little fun...

We also had to bust out the pack 'n play so that we have an area to keep her contained when we need to.  It was fun for about 10 minutes until mommy walked out of the room and she realized its true purpose.

And She's Off!

Hi folks!  I apologize for the break in the action.  Life has been a little hectic lately.  Lucy's cold ushered in a nasty upper respiratory infection.  She has had a horrible cough for over a week now and we are all sleep deprived because of it.  The cough is so bad that it triggers her gag reflex and makes her puke.  So far I've been puked on 6 times and Erik has been puked on once (not that I'm counting).  Then to top it off, she also has an ear infection, so she's on antibiotics until Wednesday.  But (fingers crossed) I think we're finally on the upswing, as the days seem to be getting better and not worse.

Feeling poopy.

But... all this hasn't stopped the LW from reaching some seriously exciting new milestones!  As you may have guessed from today's title... Lucy is officially crawling!!!

Right now she's just moving a couple of feet at a time, but I'm sure that will change in no time.

We also had to lower the crib mattress as she's now sitting up in her crib and looking over the edge.  

Whoa, there's a whole room on the other side of this crib?!

And of course, she turned 9 months old!

9-month birthday pic

Also, here are a couple of videos taken after the cold but before the cough.  I can't wait to have my silly, happy girl back!