Growing up too Fast!

She climbs up onto everything, she likes to kneel in front of the fridge and take all the magnets off that she can reach, then she will carry them around the house. She also has been pulling herself up to the stove, dishwasher, or just the wood underneath the counter, and once she is kneeling she balances there and then she will start licking the appliance or wall. Oh my goodness, yuck, so I disinfected everything. Probably not as gross as crawling all over the floor with her hand and then sticking things in her mouth, but the licking just grossed me out. 

She sure does love her green beans. She inhaled one and choked on it the other day, about scared me half to death. She coughed and was fine, but was I so ready to rip that tray off. I have had to stick my finger in her mouth to fish something out a few times now. The other day it was a little leaf, but she started gagging and then I thought she swallowed it, but then she started gagging again and so I had to pry her mouth open to get my finger in there and found the little flat leaf stuck to the back of her tongue. Why do they have to clamp their mouth shut like that.
Her is my little cutie enjoying some prunes and black beans, needed those bowels to loosen up a little more!

 Rob went to Ohio on a business trip this week from Monday to Friday(way to long) and so I did not want to make some meal that I would end up eating for dinner and then lunch and possibly dinner again from the leftovers, so I bought some hoagie buns and had yummy sandwiches for lunch and a few dinners while he was gone. I also had to make something that would use up the few leftover tomatoes from our garden.

We have these nightlights that my mom gave us for Christmas one year and Julie loves to pull them out of the wall. So I just left them out and put plug covers over instead. I moved one into the dining room because the outlet was higher up and I didn't think she would be able to reach it or bother it. Well, I was wrong, she found it today and was able to pull it out of the outlet, goodness girl, I just can't keep up with her. I barely babyproof the place and now this! She is constantly on the move!

 Julie has such a cute little pouty face, my family was able to witness it and it had them all laughing even though she was sad and upset, it was still funny. I was feeding her and I guess the spoon got her in the gums and hurt. But, she does not like loud noises(vacuum, bosch mixer, blowing your nose), and the other day I was making some bread so I just let Julie play on the floor while I started, once I turned the Mixer on, she got this pouty face where her bottom lip came up over her top lip and she looked on the verge of tears. Then she would proceed to crawl directly to me. You would think she would want to get away from the noise not move closer to it. Well, she wanted her mommy and to be held, so I held her for a minute while I started the bread and then stuck her in her high chair, and just made sure I was smiley and talking happy to her while the mixer was going. She still did not like it. Then, I was using our little vacuum to vacuum the tile floor before I mopped, she did okay. It was funny when I moved into the bathroom, I usually use just the hose and get down on my knees so I can vacuum all the hairs up faster and she wanted to be right next to me in the bathroom which was kind of cramped with her in their as I was vacuuming. She is just too funny. I usually vacuum when Rob is home so that he can take her downstairs and play to distract her, but he was in Ohio from Monday to Friday and so I just had to get it done.

Where did my little baby go, she has grown up!

She had been on the same schedule for quite awhile and we have changed it up just a little. She now only takes two naps and goes down to bed earlier! In the mornings I will go in and get her after Rob gets up to take a shower and then I will nurse her and then she will get a diaper change. Then she gets to sit on Daddy's lap while he eats his breakfast(his morning time with Julie) and she will eat some bread or bananas(something small) while Rob holds her. Then Dad goes off to work and Julie will go down for her first nap while I get ready. She takes about an hour and a half nap, when she gets up I will change her again and she will play until it is time to feed her again. She eats every four hours except in the evening. After I nurse her, it is lunchtime and she will get some sweet potatoes or squash with leftovers from dinner. We usually go on a walk with my mom after lunch. Then after our walk, she goes down for her afternoon nap. This nap usually is a little longer than her morning nap and I will nurse her when she wakes up. I try to have dinner ready by the time Rob would get home from work so I can feed Julie some of what we are eating and that way she gets fed at the same time we are and everything gets cleaned up at the same time. Then she will get a bottle of milk that I pumped in the morning and she will then play until bedtime. She is sleeping 11 hours at night, just an hour longer than she was. She will get clingy and rub her head in the carpet or on your shoulder when she is tired.

She is going to be 9 months on Monday, that just blows me away! She will have her 9 month checkup next week to see how she is doing!

Mini Golf Date

 Rob and I dropped Julie off at my parents house and headed out to Renegade Sports. We got a free pass for miniature golfing or go-carts. So, we went mini golfing, we had a good time. It was even HOT for a fall day, but it was nice. The guy we talked to there said to hang onto our free golf card and use it another time. So, next time I think we will go on the go-carts, there was a family there as we were leaving that was go-carting and it looked like fun. 

Robs other incentive on going out to Renegade Sports was to try out their new Razor side by side, and he liked it.

 Then afterwords we stopped at Firehouse(love that place), and got two lunch specials to go and headed home. Julie was playing on the front lawn with my mom having a great time.

Gate

 We finally got Julie's gate installed and now I don't have to worry about her falling down the stairs. She will crawl up next to it and act like she  is going to pull herself up to stand and then she will stop and go somewhere else.

Mule ride

 In between conference while at Robs parents(Robs mom got to watch Julie for us) we headed up the mountain on his Aunt LaVerna's mule(a side by side vehicle). It was beautiful and the last time we did this we were dating so it has been a while. Rob drove for the first half up there and then he wanted me to drive. There was two spots where you have to drive through a little water and there were wasps flying around everywhere so I was grateful he drove through those. I would have ended up driving super fast through them and probably would have caused some sort of damage to us or the vehicle.

Look at these trees, they were gorgeous. The leaves were just turning and a lot were falling off also. It was just perfect. The temperature was nice, and the weather was good.

 Here are the two of us enjoying our time together!

 We stopped at the entrance where you hike to Coldwater Lake, you actually couldn't go any further on motor vehicles so I parked and we enjoyed our lunch. While we were dating we did hike up to the lake which was fun, but not this time.

 This was our view from where we were sitting on the back of the mule, so pretty!

 More of our scenery on our way back down, I just loved it, it is just fun to go up into the mountains sometimes and enjoy nature, the sounds, the smells, are just lovely.

 I also got to enjoy this guy as well. It brought back so many fun memories from when we were dating.

 Here we are at make out peak(or so they call it), where we snapped a quick pic. Too bad the background is washed out, it overlooked the valley.

In all we had a great time and Rob let me drive the whole rest of the way back down to his Aunts(although he did drive through the first little stream). We were only gone for about an hour, but it was nice to get away. We got back to his parents and Julie had fallen asleep, so Robs mom had laid her down in the crib where she slept for another good hour and a half.

This girl LOVES to stand!

This girl loves to stand and walk around, one of her favorite places to be is at the coffee table. She will play with her toys for a little bit on the floor, but usually ends up pulling herself up to the coffee table.

These next ones are just a few I took of her in her 12-18 month clothes having a great time walking along the furniture. Her 12-18 month clothes already fit her so well, I hope they last a few months.

 She loves to walk along the coffee table and then switch to walking along the couch, these pictures show the progression from coffee table to couch, to where she found my phone(which she loves to play with).

 After she got the phone she was just using her left hand to hold her up and she forgot that she was using it to support herself. She let go of the couch and grabbed the phone, she stood there for like a second and then I caught her as she just fell straight over.

 She also loves to crawl over you, or just lay across your legs. Daddy was emptying out the paper shredder and she just crawled over to daddy's legs and layed there, as soon as I came in with the camera she started moving and crawled over top of them and over to the diapers.

 Such a sweet girl!
On a side note: I was letting Julie play with a corelle ice cream cup today while I fed her. I went to wash out the dishes I was using and the next thing I hear is breaking glass. Oh man, I knew that might happen but was hoping that it wouldn't. Luckily there was not very many pieces to clean up. I whipped out the vacuum which Julie is not very fond of but she did okay. She must be getting used to it. So now we are minus one ice cream cup. Darn it!

Daring

She is getting daring, while holding onto a table or couch, she will reach for something just out of her reach like another chair or something to walk along. She will reach out so slowly and then if she can't quite make it she will grab back onto whatever she was holding. She will also bend over and try to grab at objects on the floor, she has been pretty successful at this. 

She won't let you hold onto her hand, but if you reach your hand out to her, she will grasp onto your hand, but you can't wrap your fingers around hers until after she has held onto your hand(don't know if that made sense). 

We tried black beans tonight and chicken nuggets, and she loved them.

The last couple of days, she does not want anything to do with her baby food. If you try to stick the spoon near her face, she will wave her arms and you have to be pretty fast to get that spoon away or the food goes flying. So, we gave her finger foods for dinner tonight, she had green beans, black beans, and chicken nuggets. It is crazy how much baby food gets wasted, ahhhh, drives me nuts sometimes!

Randomness

 During Conference Rob was supposed to put Julie to sleep, not the other way around. I was able to listen to a lot more of conference this time than last time. It is a lot more difficult with a little one.What I did hear of Conference was awesome, I am excited to read and reread the talks when they come out.

Rob came home the other day and saw my tower I built with Julie. He didn't believe that Julie built it, come on, haha!She is funny, she would go up to it like she was going to knock it over, get her hand up there real close and then stop and look at you. She would just smile, she never would topple it over with her hands, she would just grab the book underneath.

 Here she is eating her green beans. She loves them, she loves eating with her hands.

 Here are some pictures of her cruising along the furniture, lately she will just use her stomach to rest against the coffee table or couch and then she will use both hands to play with whatever she is playing with. She is getting more daring every day.

  This is the first time that I went in to get her and she was standing, usually she is just kneeling, but she wasn't in her sleep sack so she was able to pull herself all the way up to her feet. She was so happy when I walked in.

And today I was cleaning out her closet, putting all her small clothes away and I pulled out all her 12-18 month clothes and hung them up. There were a couple capris that fit her perfectly so I better use those right now before it gets to cold. I still can't believe she will be able to fit into 12 month clothes. I hope they last her through winter at least.

Another Tooth

 Julie has got another tooth, I noticed it last night. It is also just barely poking through, and same as the last one, no red swelling gums, she is not cranky, just my happy little girl. She has been feeling it with her tongue a lot lately. It is right next to her other tooth on the bottom. 

As you can see from this next picture, we have yet to clear off our coffee table, she likes to get at everything. And since she is always at the coffee table I guess it is time for the clear all.

I just love sleeping babies, they are just so precious and peaceful. Lately she has been a little stink bug and  sleeping with her bum in the air.

My little Angel!