Project Rosalie - 46 Weeks

Rosalie's getting so brave! She's mastered cruising, and can get pretty much anywhere, and into pretty much anything! One of my favorite new things that she does is open up the compartment on one of her toys and finding whatever I've hidden in there! I try to have new things in it a lot, snacks, toys, crayons... it doesn't matter what it is, when she opens up the top and sees her treasure, her eyes just light up and she smiles so big. I hardly have enough time to blink these days before she's doing something new, or has a new tooth! I cannot believe she'll be one soon! I don't know if I'm going to be able to handle it!

Project Rosalie - 45 Weeks

Just as soon as we got back from Palatka, Rosalie discovered just how exciting it is to put things in containers and take them out! For days I knew if I put these blocks down in front of her she would be occupied for at LEAST 10 minutes (which is pretty much the longest anything never occupies her these days!) It's so funny to see her execute her job with such determination. she searches all over for anything she can put into the box, crawling across the room to get something and carrying it all the way back to the box, then looking around for the next thing.
She's moved on now to pulling crackers and teething cookies out of the box and putting them back in, and emptying the toy box, just to refill it. She has so very much to do every day!

Project Rosalie - 44 Weeks

She sure does wear herself out a lot lately! This week we traveled to Palatka for Dag's annual Tilton Family dinner! It was really a lot of fun this time! I'm so, so glad that Rosalie did great with everyone this time. She realized just how much fun her Nana is and loved playing with her, she was friendly to her cousins and even let other people hold her! This is a big step for such a shy, momma's girl of a baby!

AND she was AMAZING on the three-hour car-rides there and back! On the way there, she was awake and hour, (no-fussing mind you!) and just all of a sudden closed her eyes and went to sleep! She slept about an hour and when she woke up we stopped at an Arbys's in Starke (strangely, the nicest fast-food place I've ever been to!) and she played in the booth by the window, watching the cars zoom past, eating her free applesauce (shout out to da Arby's guy), then back in the car for another 40 minutes of non-fussing before we made it to Nana's house. On the way back she lasted an hour and a half awake and happy, then fell asleep for the duration of the ride! Sweet!

Also in Palatka she decided that this food stuff I've been trying to shove down her throat for the last 4 months is not such a bad thing. She's been eating and eating and eating... I find it less convenient than breastfeeding, but I guess it's for the best ;-)

Project Rosalie - 43 Weeks

What a very cute bat! LieLu was a bat for Halloween, this is her at Trunk or Treat at Church being adorable. She got her little bucket of candy and saw all of her little buddies in their costumes! It was really fun doing her first Halloween!
She is really moving these days! She's cruising and crawling everywhere! She's so excited when she accomplishes something new or comes upon something she's never seen before. I love to see her little face light up. I'm taking a lot fewer pictures lately, and I rarely have time to upload them because she keeps me so busy! I have so much fun with her all week, but then I find I have no pictures of her antics, and I'm sad I didn't stop to document them. But I can only do so much!

OH, she is such a snuggle bug! She is just the cutest!