catching up

sweet lord, has it really been this long since i have updated? Harlow is a solid 7m old now. and growing. the 6-7m mark was similair to the 3-4m mark for us. she made so many big deal steps forward! my big round baby is acting like a grown up baby.

teef: pretty sure i already reported this but she broke two teeth a while ago. they're cute as a button. and i fear that the top ones are going to rear their ugly heads soon enough too.

pulling up: she is pulling herself up like a champ. pretty sure she is way ahead of the game in that field. but it must be said that she is built solid on the bottom like her mama. so she started pulling herself up in her crib about a month ago. now she pulls herself up left and right with no problem whatsoever. the other day she even pulled herself up and stood holding nothing at all for a while. just my baby...standing there...holding nothing...and smiling. she has also learned the game of walking along the couch/ect. she is just beginning to master that. but girl can move! she is a climber and all over the place whenever possible.

still no crawling or interest in crawling.

signing/clapping: she knew the sign for "milk" almost immedietely. she can't ask for milk back but she certainly understands it when i sign "milk" to her. why wouldn't she - it's her favorite thing. she learned the sign for "more" a few weeks ago. she really got it at first and would ask for "more" after each bite of food. she has since mixed up "more" and the joy of clapping her hands together. so the communication of "more" has been lost. for now. i'm okay with that because the clapping is pretty damn cute. she claps constantly. she wakes me up a lot in the morning clapping. she loves it.

dancing/singing: she understands when we dance and tries to move along with us. mostly it looks like her bending her knees up and down. but she'll throw her hands in the air too if the dance you're doing involves hands in the air. so she is getting there. Her and i have been taking a nightly bath together now that the weather is getting cooler. the first half of the bath i sing to her. she lays with me chewing a toy and "sings" along with me. it's to die!

ok. a promise to update more often?! it's hard when you work a million hours every week and the baby has had sleeping issues (more details to follow). i leave with some pics.

check out this chunker! this is from last week. i think she id storing up for the winter.



Halloween!




Nako's visit.




just being the cutest.