Winter Wonderland and Surprise Photos

Today was the first snowfall that stuck around.  I bundled up Anne and took her outside to experience snow for the first time.  She didn't seem to know what to make of it.  I tried to get her to taste the snow too, but she wasn't interested.  She looks ridiculous in her snowsuit.  :)

In order to take photos out in the snow without destroying my nice camera, I dug out the ol' point-and-shoot.  On it I found a few surprise photos from Anne's birth that we had never downloaded.

What a cutie!

Anne fell over and made a snow angel.  It is so bright outside that she can't open her eyes.

Anne tried in vain to crawl.

Tee hee hee.

There's a smile! 

And the surprise photos:

New baby Anne.

Skin-to-skin time.

The first night at home with Anne.

Hello, World!

Anne waved at us for the first time today.  We had her outside sitting on the lawn as we raked leaves when she first waved at us.  It was pretty convincing, but we weren't sure it wasn't just a coincidence until dinner time when she very obviously waved back at us.  See video below.

Blast From the Past (+bonus videos)

I finally got around to scanning some more photos of myself when I was a baby.  Can you tell who is who?

 And here are some bonus videos of Anne.

Today when I went to get Anne up from her morning nap she was standing up in her crib!  So I ran downstairs to get the video camera.  Anne loves to stand up now.  All she does is try to stand up all day long.  The problem is once she gets up she can't seem to figure out how to get down and it usually ends in tears.

Today I received the warm winter clothes I ordered for Anne.  The boots were too large, the mitts were too small, and the hat was way too cute.

And here is cute video of Anne chatting after dinner the other night.  There is a close-up of her nose - she crawled from the grass onto the driveway and immediately did a face-plant.

Other Anne updates:

• Anne now sits in the grocery cart like a big girl at the grocery store, though we have to put something in it to cover the bars or she will try to eat them.
• Everywhere we go, people stop to talk to Anne and tell her how adorable she is.
• Anne is crawling like a fiend.  She is not too fast yet, but she can get where she wants to go.  She now hates being changed - she would much rather flip over and crawl away.
• Anne seems to be waking up only once a night for feedings now.  Finally Jeff and I are starting to get a bit more sleep.
• Anne likes to eat almost all food.  She is not too keen on spinach or bananas, but other than that she eats pretty much everything.  She is starting to eat some finger foods, such as pita bread, cheerios, noodles, and other little bits of our dinner that we deem appropriate.

Out Standing in Her Field

Anne just pushed herself up to standing for the first time.  She pushed herself up on the fireplace step, reveled in three seconds of ecstasy, and then promptly fell and hit the back of her head on the hardwood floor.

Since then she has repeated the feat several times (we added a mat for safety).  See video below for the replay.

Anne and the Pop Can

Anne had another one of her mysterious vomiting episodes on Wednesday.  This is the third such episode.  Originally we thought maybe she was allergic to bananas since both of the other times she had eaten bananas hours before vomitting, but this third time there were no bananas involved.  Anne also sounded like she had a sore throat the last couple days, so I took her to see the doctor.  The doctor could find nothing wrong with her and said the vomiting could be a food intolerance, or reflux, or possibly we had just fed her too much.  

I think it likely that we just fed her too much.  This last time I had certainly fed her quite a bit.  Now that I think back on it I think we had also given her ice cubes to suck on after eating each of the other times too - maybe the food plus the ice cubes plus some breast milk was just too much for her little tummy to handle.  Anyway, I plan to feed her a little bit of banana this weekend to see if she is ok with it.  It would really suck to be allergic to bananas.

Anyway, that was probably more information than you wanted to know.  :)  The doctor also weighed Anne and she weighed in at 9.25 kg (20 lbs, 6 oz) which is about the 93rd percentile.  She is a little Plumpkin.  

Yesterday Anne figured out what a mirror actually is.  She would stare at the mirror until I did something like stick out my tongue or wave and then she would look at me, then back at the mirror.  This is a repeatable result.

Anne has greatly improved her crawling skills.  She can now reliably move from a sitting position to hands and knees and then back to a sitting position.  Unfortunately she often crawls to a toy, moves into a sitting position, and then realizes that the act of sitting moved her back about a foot so that she can no longer reach the toy.  It is sad.  

Here are a couple of fun videos from last night.  The first video is a short clip of Anne talking.  Her voice is a bit hoarse since we think she has had a sore throat for the last couple days.  

The second video is a long video of Anne chasing a pop can around our kitchen.  We cut the video off at about 6 minutes, but Anne continued to chase the can around for at least another 10 minutes after we stopped recording.  Anne had been staring longingly at this pop can of mine all day long so we finally duct-taped up a pop can for her.  She was delighted.  Unfortunately this is not the best video of her crawling skills since her pants slip on the floor.  She is much better on carpet, or with no pants on.

Cute Check

Yup, still cute.

You did WHAT with the blender?!

Crawling!

Anne is crawling at 7 months, 1 day old.  Bring on the baby gates!