Our family: March 2009

Leslie is now 9 months old. We go to Michelle Ashe Photography for her pictures Tuesday!

She is still the happiest baby God ever made! I love her two-toothed grin!
She has become a master at pulling up and "speed crawling," or as Jody likes to call it, her "Hitler Crawl" (because of how high she lifts her arm before slamming it down).
She has made progress with sippy cups - the straw ones anyway.
Watching her crawl around the house is fascinating. To me, it's like watching her go about her job. She seems to take her exploration so seriously and studies things with great intent. She's especially curious about the cd player in her room. She crawls over to it daily to "work" on it. All the while she is exploring, she'll occassionally make her random chirping noises, which I find completely adorable. She has succeeded in crawling up a step or two (scary).
She is impossible to bathe...she constantly tries to pull up while she's in the tub...and tries to bite the side of the tub.
Very exciting news for mom and dad -- she seems to have learned what no means!! For example, she bites EVERYTHING. As she pulls up to any object, she opens her mouth to bite on it. Well, we didn't appreciate her biting our living room coffee table, so we've been saying "no" and "don't bite". Now, when she's pulling up...she opens her mouth.....then looks at me. I say "No, don't bite," and she smiles and pulls up the rest of the way without biting the table. Exciting, right????
She doesn't do any copy-catting..no wave hello or bye-bye (I wasn't worried about this until the doc asked whether she was doing it), and no signs (which I wouldn't really expect yet). She does love to watch her baby signs video, though. It's the only one she'll watch, which is fine with me.
She has finally begun to show interest in a book (other than eating it). She now stops what she's doing when I read Goodnight Moon. Jody read it to her for the first time last night. He began the story when she was across the room "working" on the CD player. She immediately stopped what she was doing, crawled over to him, and pulled up to watch him read more closely. When the book was over she got down, he put her to bed, and she was asleep within two minutes!
She still isn't showing a LOT of interest in Walker...although she watches him more than she used to and occasionally reaches out to touch his paw (only his paw...nothing else).