So lets see...We were at the cottage the week of July 20th so the Tuesday before that she got her first tooth, and her second one came in the Tuesday we were up there. She is crawling like a madwoman, we've had to install all the baby gates, she's just way too mobile now. The other neat trick she has is walking around furniture. So I'll leave her on one side of the living room, and she'll wander over to the other, moving from couch to table to toy to get there.
She snorts when she laughs, which makes her momma proud. Apparently she likes the praise I give her, she's learned to clap. By the same token, if she's headed for something she shouldn't touch and I tell her 'no', she'll shake her head no. We're working on potty training, she's good about it, I have to be more on the ball. Same goes for signing. She looks at me like I'm a complete goof when I sing and sign to her.
She's still not taking a bottle, which is driving me a bit batty, and she will take water out of a sippy cup, but not milk (stubborn little thing!). She's trying a new food about every three days, and this amuses me greatly. She has the best reactions to everything new, and basically looks like she's going to hurl, followed by a look of complete betrayal. I'm still making all her food. It's so easy to prepare and always nice to have it already portioned and frozen on hand. We've started to move into the proteins, she's getting egg yolks and yogurt now, and her appetite is growing so much!
Hubby is working on wearing her out now, they do laps, racing around the kitchen, through the dining room and living room and back again. It really confuses the hell out of the dogs, they have no idea why he's crawling around.
I think as of last week I figured out her sleeping too! She usually gets a bit tired in the morning, and I figured she needed a morning nap, so I'd spend way too much time trying to get her to sleep, and she'd have a 20 minute catnap. I'd repeat this a couple of times and then get completely frustrated as my whole day was shot. Well, last week I babysat L again for a couple of days, and while I was chasing a toddler I didn't have time to obsess over V. V got worn out from playing all morning, ate lunch and then napped for 1.5 hours! And then she hit the sack at around 9pm and stayed in bed until morning (she fed, but no play time, freaking out, no-sleep periods).
She's now managed to repeat this for over a week. Last night she was in bed by 9, didn't wake up until 2:30 and then 5:30. I am so happy to be able to sleep! Fingers are still crossed, but she was asleep by 8:30 tonight. And it only took me 8 and a half months to figure that out - sheesh.
Now that it appears we've mastered 'We're All Happier on More than Four Hours Sleep' next lesson is a toss-up between 'The World is Not Ending When Mommy Leaves the Room' and 'The Crib is not Baby Jail'.