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Wednesday, August 31, 2005
What it is like to be 11 months old
I couldn't decide which pictures to post this time, so I posted quite a few. I'm sure you won't mind. :) We had a good month, despite the fever we all had (Mom for 1 day, Dad for 2 days and Maegan for about a week). After 5 days of on and off fever around 101, we took Maegan to the Doctor, who said to just give her Ibuprofen every 8 hours and it should be gone in a couple of days...and it was.
In some of the pictures I posted you may notice that one side of Maegan's upper lip is swollen. She fell against an end table at day care and had a fat lip for a couple of days. I know it won't be the last time! It didn't seem to bother her much, but it was too bad it happened right before her 11 month birthday, so it is in most of the pictures.
I should explain some of the pictures. Lately, when Mae gets excited or is just really happy, she bounces up and down and waves her arms up and down above her head and opens her mouth really wide and says AAAA aaa aaaa AAAA AAAA! It is really funny and I think I have it on video. Now that we have a DVD burner, I will be compiling the video we have and sending it off to the various grandparents, so you will see it soon.
Maegan can crawl on her knees or on her feet (bear crawling). She bear crawls a lot when she is wearing a dress, so her knees don't get stuck. We bought a toy for her that she can push and walk behind, and she gets really excited when she makes it move. It converts to a ride-on toy when she's ready for that. I'll have to get a picture of it and post that, too.
Mae has been playing with the stackable block things that you see in a couple of the pictures, and she will spend a lot of time (a lot for an 11 month old) trying to get them to fit together. When she does, she makes lots of happy noises. :)
There are almost 5 teeth now. I can see the 5th and 6th ones trying to come through her top gums, but number 5 is very close. I've been using a baby toothbrush thing (it goes over your finger and is rubbery) with baby toothpaste every night. Maegan likes it. I think it is bubble gum flavored.
We did some product testing this month. I went by myself one day and sniffed samples of baby lotion and rated them. Last Saturday, Maegan and I went and taste tested four samples of vanilla custard pudding. It was lots of fun and we earned $40 in Meijer gift cards!
Maegan likes table food now over baby food (can you blame her?). She loves Mexican food, which is hardly a surprise, since I ate so much of it when she was in the womb. Some of her other favorites are watermelon, cantaloupe, beans, and cheese. She likes almost everything she can feed herself.
Today we saw a dog in the car next to us at the stop light. Actually, Maegan noticed it first and grinned and said oooh, which made me look and see a fuzzy little white pooch hanging out the window. I think we have a dog lover on our hands.
Tami (day care) took Mae and her kids to the zoo this month, and said Maegan loved it. She pointed at the animals and said oooh oooh! We are planning to go with some friends in the next couple of weeks. What fun!
One bad thing that happened this month was that we lost our hard drive and all of our pictures. All we have is what is posted on the blog. We would welcome any copies you have (CD is probably the best delivery method, since we only have dial-up).
That's all I can think of for now. Stay tuned!
In some of the pictures I posted you may notice that one side of Maegan's upper lip is swollen. She fell against an end table at day care and had a fat lip for a couple of days. I know it won't be the last time! It didn't seem to bother her much, but it was too bad it happened right before her 11 month birthday, so it is in most of the pictures.
I should explain some of the pictures. Lately, when Mae gets excited or is just really happy, she bounces up and down and waves her arms up and down above her head and opens her mouth really wide and says AAAA aaa aaaa AAAA AAAA! It is really funny and I think I have it on video. Now that we have a DVD burner, I will be compiling the video we have and sending it off to the various grandparents, so you will see it soon.
Maegan can crawl on her knees or on her feet (bear crawling). She bear crawls a lot when she is wearing a dress, so her knees don't get stuck. We bought a toy for her that she can push and walk behind, and she gets really excited when she makes it move. It converts to a ride-on toy when she's ready for that. I'll have to get a picture of it and post that, too.
Mae has been playing with the stackable block things that you see in a couple of the pictures, and she will spend a lot of time (a lot for an 11 month old) trying to get them to fit together. When she does, she makes lots of happy noises. :)
There are almost 5 teeth now. I can see the 5th and 6th ones trying to come through her top gums, but number 5 is very close. I've been using a baby toothbrush thing (it goes over your finger and is rubbery) with baby toothpaste every night. Maegan likes it. I think it is bubble gum flavored.
We did some product testing this month. I went by myself one day and sniffed samples of baby lotion and rated them. Last Saturday, Maegan and I went and taste tested four samples of vanilla custard pudding. It was lots of fun and we earned $40 in Meijer gift cards!
Maegan likes table food now over baby food (can you blame her?). She loves Mexican food, which is hardly a surprise, since I ate so much of it when she was in the womb. Some of her other favorites are watermelon, cantaloupe, beans, and cheese. She likes almost everything she can feed herself.
Today we saw a dog in the car next to us at the stop light. Actually, Maegan noticed it first and grinned and said oooh, which made me look and see a fuzzy little white pooch hanging out the window. I think we have a dog lover on our hands.
Tami (day care) took Mae and her kids to the zoo this month, and said Maegan loved it. She pointed at the animals and said oooh oooh! We are planning to go with some friends in the next couple of weeks. What fun!
One bad thing that happened this month was that we lost our hard drive and all of our pictures. All we have is what is posted on the blog. We would welcome any copies you have (CD is probably the best delivery method, since we only have dial-up).
That's all I can think of for now. Stay tuned!
Wednesday, August 03, 2005
Now that Maegan is 10 months old...
She has 4 teeth (check out the 2 new top ones in the picture posted above).
She pulls herself up to standing and occasionally lets go and stands there for a few seconds, just keeping her balance.
She has a new habit of wrinkling up her nose when she smiles.
She loves to 'undo' things, such as taking books off the shelf, taking objects out of a container, and knocking over towers of toys built by other people.
She sings to herself often.
She makes an 'o' shape with her lips and breathes out her mouth, making a whistling sound.
She is even more delightful than last month!
She pulls herself up to standing and occasionally lets go and stands there for a few seconds, just keeping her balance.
She has a new habit of wrinkling up her nose when she smiles.
She loves to 'undo' things, such as taking books off the shelf, taking objects out of a container, and knocking over towers of toys built by other people.
She sings to herself often.
She makes an 'o' shape with her lips and breathes out her mouth, making a whistling sound.
She is even more delightful than last month!
