Random Tidbits!

She has started the separation anxiety, I will leave the room and she will start whimpering and then cry if I don't come back fast enough. This will be interesting, just started the last couple of days.

After her morning nap this morning, I went in to get her and she had the string to her bumper in her mouth, she looked so mischievous when I peaked over the side. Sometimes if she has been sleeping long or I need to feed her, I will go in and check on her and she will be just lying there awake, just like she is relaxing. Or I will open the door and she will pop her head up and look over the railing when we come in if she is on her stomach. She gets so excited when she sees us coming, kicking her legs and arms at the same time.
What I have been doing recently is, I lay her down for her nap and then I turn her mobile on. I wait just outside the door and she sticks her hand up into the air and waves it around and then she will grab the bumper and start pulling on it before she falls asleep. It reminds me of the movie "August Rush" when he is a baby in the crib. She is just a happy little kid.

I got this bear or dog, I am not sure what it is exactly at Sams a few years ago and I sat Julie on it the other day and she loved it. She kept bouncing up and down like she was riding a horsey. She was also really tired and she gets super giggly and happy when she is tired. She had fun.

Well, she has figured out how to roll, and she is now very mobile moving all over the place. It is so fun to watch her, she is also close to crawling. This new found freedom is getting her places quickly and I have got to keep my eye on her all the time. She loves to roll where the light shines on the carpet and she will grab at it.

It makes diaper changing an adventure as well, she will twist her body around to get at whatever she sees(especially difficult when it is a messy diaper and the diaper is off). That is where I keep her binki that she plays with while I change her, she now reaches for it when I lay her on the changing pad. Just before bath tonight, she manages to turn towards the wall and flip over onto her stomach in no time, and then kept scooting further down.

I haven't taken any bath time pictures since her first bath we gave her. So, I decided to take some tonight, she loves her bath and LOVES to splash.

She put 3 puffs in her mouth by herself and ate them. This is a big thing because she won't let you put anything in her mouth. She has been practicing her fine motor skills for basically her whole life(haha, sounds funny to say that), so when we hold out a puff for her to grab, she uses her finger and thumb and grabs it and puts it directly into her mouth most of the time. She is so precise. She looks tired in this picture, but she is actually just trying to keep a puff in her mouth.
We also have tried the biscuits and she likes those pretty well also.

Rob and I went on a walk the other day with my parents and after stopping at my parents for a bit, we grabbed some parade candy and headed up the street. Rob tried to get Julie to open her mouth to taste the sucker he was eating and she didn't the first time, but then she opened her mouth and tasted it and LOVED it, she would open her mouth when he brought it near and she got a few tastes of the sweet treat. Silly girl, she knows the good stuff.
(This in no way applies that her Aunts or Uncles or Grandparents can give her tastes of ice cream or other such sweets, I am not kidding!!! DO or DIE) Just the thought of your germs all over the utensil grosses me out and I do not want anyone elses germs in my childs mouth, Yuck!
Thanks!
(Don't mean to sound rude or anything, but that is how I feel)

She has a binki, but she doesn't use it for sucking on, and hasn't for quite a few months now, I give it to her while I change her diaper and she plays with it and chews on it. It is kind of nice not having her be attached to her binki, although it definitely would help at church. She really only sleeps well in her crib, so getting her to sleep in your arms is a challenge sometimes. She really is not a cuddly baby, so when she is fighting sleep you have to hold her on your shoulder and bounce her. At least that is how I get her to sleep.

So far we have given her bananas, carrots, strawberries, squash, and sweet potatoes. But, she still will not open her mouth willingly for the food. I guess it will come in time. I just need to keep offering it. She is getting so much better each day.