First and foremost, Lola is off the bottle and takes all her milk and water from a sippy cup. A week ago, I gave her a sippy in the morning instead of her bottle. She didn't protest, so I continued throughout the day offering her the sippy and she consistently took it. A week later, she doesn't even seem to notice the bottle is gone.
She gets stronger and stronger by the day. She's starting to stand up on her own for longer lengths of time and she's beginning to lean forward like she's getting ready to take steps. Now she just has to figure out that she needs to pick up her feet! We wouldn't be shocked in the slightest if she was wobbling along at her 1st birthday party.
Finger food is a world of fun for Lola these days. Her favorites are peas and Cheerios, but this week I added steamed diced apples and roasted sliced turkey and she seems to thoroughly enjoy those, too. No doubt Grandma will be adding even more new foods to her daily menu when we go down to visit in just 2 weeks!
It seems like Lola has only had her bottom two teeth (which John refers to as her "Chiclets") for forever now. But at the moment, she's cutting five, YES FIVE, teeth at once. One on the bottom next to her Chicklits and her top front 4. She seems a tad more fussy than normal, but still totally managable. We continue to pop the Hylands teething tablets which she loves (thanks Christine!).
She's really into "reading" these days, especially her Eric Carle books, "Brown Bear, Brown Bear" and "Polar Bear, Polar Bear". We've been working on color recognition and I'm hoping she'll be able to identify her colors soon. Her vocabulary continues to grow. No real words yet, but we're hearing new sounds daily. She points towards things and "talks", so we know she's dying to get her point across! She was signing "more" last week, but now this week is on strike. Little stinker!
Napping and bedtime are now (99.9% of the time) a joy! She knows when she is tired and no longer tries to fight it. We lay her in her crib and she knows it's time to go "nigh-nigh". She sleeps through the night great, but still wakes up bright-eyed and bushy-tailed between 5-6:00 am every morning. I keep telling her at that hour of the morning, when I could really use another hour, that she's lucky she's so damn cute!
When we watch her, we're amazed she's the same baby we brought home from the hospital! She continues to surprise and delight us at every moment. In our eyes, she is perfect.
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