Clapping

Lillian learned how to clap. We have been working on it for a while: clapping in front of her, clapping her hands, having her clap our hands. We've been doing this for weeks. Anyway, this morning she finally decided to clap on her own with out 'showing' her how when Sean entered the room. He'd leave and she'd stop, just to start again when he came back. Sean is baby's favourite person.

And here is a picture for good measure:

I got a look...

She's so young and already she's giving, "Aww, come on, mom" type looks. It makes me so sad. I can't wait until she's old enough that I can mess up fairy tales and she can correct me. At least then I'll deserve those looks.

April Update

I didn't post at all in April. And it was so long ago, that I don't remember specific things to post about. The best I can do is post pictures so you can get an idea of what we did. She has perfected pulling up and can kind of cruise.


Sitting next to the cat nest. Little does the cat know that in the next couple of months her primary goal will be to climb into the cat nest.Eating a shoe. She is going to have to wear shoes all the time in the 1's class and I can't get her to stop eating them.
Very proud of herself for getting the dog bone. The dog is unaware of this development.

She is handing me the basket after she removed all of the toys, presumably to convince me that I need to replace the toys.

Patting the dog. I don't know why my text changed for this.

More Teeth

Eight months

Baby should be able to

• Bear some weight on legs- she pulls herself up and plops and does it again.
• Feed self a cracker- this is an entirely subjective idea. Yes the cracker is in the hand and she can transfer it to her mouth. However, she doesn't actually consume any of the cracker, she just chews off little chunks and spreads them across the floor.
• Pick up things with a fist- yes.
• Turn towards voices- yes.
• Look for a dropped object- usually.

Baby will probably be able to

• Pass objects from hand to hand- yep. She's learning that you can hold one object per hand, too. Once they are all full, you are going to have to drop something.
• Stand holding onto something or someone- yep.
• Object if you try to take a toy away- she mostly just tries even harder to get the toy.
• Work to get a toy that is out of reach- yep
• Play peekaboo- she doesn't cover her eyes, it that is what this book is referring to.
• Go from belly to sitting- yep and then back to her belly

Baby may possibly be able to

• Creep or crawl- every day she is getting faster and faster
• Pull into a standing position from sitting- she started doing this right after crawling. I think she had a day or so in between.
• Pincher grasp- not really.
• Say mama or dada indiscriminately- it usually comes out 'mamamamama' or 'dadadada' there are a couple just mama or dada in there, though.

Baby may even be able to

• Play patty-cake- she thinks clapping her hands is pretty spiffy. But it is rare that she remembers that she can do it. She prefers to clap my hands for me.
• Cruise- nope. She does lift her feet when she is holding on to things.
• Stand alone momentarily- she pretty much falls down as soon as she lets go.
• Understand 'no'- no.

Clothing

Sean dressed Lillian today. Can you tell?

Silly baby

I love my baby. Don't get me wrong. But sometimes I worry about her.

Is she suicidal? Does she not care about the bumps on her head?

Look at her, she wants to climb onto the end table. I didn't get any pictures of her almost there since I was busy trying to keep her from falling. I let her touch the end table, but not actually get on it. I don't want to be one of those parents that crush their kids dreams, but there has to be limits. You don't just roll around on end tables. It isn't normal.

This morning she told me off in her adorable little baby language. She wanted to launch herself off of the bed head first and I wouldn't let her.

Sean took me out to see Watchmen and have a nice Lillian-less dinner. The food was wonderful. Having a night out makes you appreciate having the baby around that much more. You miss all of the cuddles and smiles and freaking out because she pulled herself up, but hasn't figured out how to get back down yet.