Weeks 73 & 74

Dear Jorie,

Oh my! Somehow I forgot to write you a letter last week! I'm not sure how that happened. I'm so sorry! My only excuse is that the time is flying by!

Eating at the Table

We've moved your high chair into the dining room, and are having meals in there now. It's really nice being able to spend the time sitting at the table with you and your Father. For our first dinner at the table, I made a really yummie frittata. Your father likes having you at the table for breakfast, he told me it feels more relaxing to be able to sit with you at the table while he eats his cereal and you eat your oatmeal.

Reading on the couch
with Nannie and Grandpa

Oh yeah! You've been feeding yourself (mostly) with a spoon lately. We give you the spoon and your oatmeal and you go to town. Most of it actually gets in your mouth too!

The weekend before last, you managed to get yourself out of your crib. Your father went to get you up on Saturday morning, and you met him at the door! It was a good thing we had managed to get the gate up at the top of the stairs already!

Who wore it better?

You have so many words now, it's hard to remember which ones are new. Your new thing is to call everything a baby. You point at everything and say "Baby?" Me and your Father spend a lot of time correcting you. This morning we were working on "Blueberry" which kinda sounded like "booboooie."

You're still teething something fierce right now. I haven't been able to coax you to open your mouth long enough for me to get a good look at what's coming in, but you've been chewing on everything you can get your hands on.

You went through a brief hitting phase last week, where you would slap and kick people. It wasn't malicious, but just because you thought it was funny. Luckily that seems to have subsided. You still slap every now and then, but you get a swift "time out" and a stern "no." Now it only seems to happen when you're over tired.

Trying to get your shoe
on Daddy's Foot

You're still a handfull. You love to test the boundaries and I think we're getting a preview of how the "terrible twos" are going to play out. I'm still holding out hope that this is the worst of it, you really like to ignore us when we tell you not to do things, but based on feedback from other parents, it's looking like it's going to be a rough couple of years.

Teething...so much teething

You are totally worth it, though. No matter how frustrated I am, or how many times I tell you not to feed your food to the dog and then watch you do just that, Your smile melts my heart.

The other night at Nannie and Grandpa O's, my mom jokingly said "Soon she'll be saying 'Why?'", to which you instantly piped up "Why?" which made us all burst out laughing. You now think "why" must be a really funny word!

I'm sorry this is such a scattered letter. I'm having a hard time remembering any stand out moments to relay to you. Most of the past two weeks were made up of those tiny awesome moments, like giving you a bath this morning and playing with you in the living room.

I love you so much baby girl.

In your "indian hat" from
daycare