Project Rosalie - 37 Weeks

The CHIN! She has been smooshing her chin on things lately. I think it's a teething thing? She's had a couple of rough nights with teething and I always know when her mouth hurts, because she leaves bite marks all over me! I try to teach her it's not nice, but her face seems to say: "Yeah? Well my TEETH aren't nice!!!" She's still pretty solidly in her separation anxiety phase but there appears a light at the end of the tunnel, she's playing on her own now more like she used to, pulling up and rolling from here to there. She still would prefer it if no one but me and sometimes Dad, would speak to her! That's mostly okay with me, too ;-)

Project Rosalie - 36 Weeks

Rosalie's first big girl bath! She loves it! She just plays and plays and scoots from one side to the other, grabbing the faucet, splashing in the water and sqeeeeeezing the washcloth as hard as she can! Her little personality is becoming very apparent these days. She definitely got my attitude and lack of patience! She gets really frustrated and tenses up every muscle in her little body and makes fists and beats things. It's cute!!!!..... For now ;-) But on the upswing I'm' getting to see her sense of humor. She thinks wrapping paper tubes and anything that "walks" like a penguin is hilarious! I love my chubby little 8-month old! AND her 12 month clothes!!!

Project Rosalie - 35 Weeks

Oh Rosalie, why is this year going so fast? I can't believe how old she is! She is still completely uninterested in conventional crawling, but she is getting around a little bit with scoots and rolls. I am constantly seeing her move forward onto all fours and thinking "SHE'S GOING TO DO IT!!! SHE'S GOING TO CRAWL!!!" But then she either sits back on her bottom or flattens out. I promise I'm not wanting her to grow up too fast, the only reason that I want her to crawl is to relieve her frustration! She is starting to pull up on things and she just loves to climb over "obstacles" (especially me) and has finally come back to loving books, which she took a break from for a while. I'm also trying really hard to get her to eat more food. She's finally come out of whatever phase was keeping her up so much at night, so now I think that if she gets more solids before bed that she may even go all night without waking up! So now I just need to figure out what the girl will eat that is easy to prepare for her... She still refuses to eat baby food or anything pureed other than canteloupe, so she eats a lot of cheese, beans, grapes, puffs, pasta... and bits of whatever I'm eating!