A few days ago my daughter, Kathleen, an adventurous 9 month old, decided to do something a little too far outside her abilities and ended up on her head.
Not unusual for this age. It happens almost weekly anymore.
This time, though, she got a little scrape and needed a small round bandage.
Fast forward a few days and Lonnie, baby and I are over at my parents’ house helping them move furniture.
Kathleen is being passed between my mother and myself depending on who’s most needed at the moment.
About the time we’re wrapping up Mom goes down stairs to order a pizza, so I put Kathleen on the floor for a couple minutes and help put clothes in a box while keeping half an eye on her.
It apparently wasn’t the correct half.
I pick her up and notice that she’s rolling something around in her mouth.
Great.
As I’m trying to get her mouth open there’s a big, theatrical swallow, and it’s gone.
Then Lonnie points to her head and says…
“Her band-aid’s gone.”
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*** The little bandage passed without incident, by the way. lol ***
Today’s Mirth and Music Monday comes with a little announcement.
My little teething Kathleen has cut her first tooth!
It wasn’t as bad as I was prepared to deal with. I only really noticed her extra clingy-ness the day before it actually cleared the gums. (Observant much?)
Now we’re wondering if the one beside it is on it’s way also as we play finger ninjas trying to keep her from gnawing on us with that ridiculously sharp little fang.
On that note, I heard this song as Kathleen and I were getting our Phineas and Ferb fix last week:
My 6 month old girl is sitting next to me at the dining room table, alternately babbling, blowing very wet raspberries, and gnawing on the ribbon holding her little chew baggy of grapes, farting like a drunk frat boy, and probably wishing I would put the computer back to the sparkly-outfitted ’70’s music video we watched right before I started blogging.
She is outright refusing to learn how to sit on her own. Instead she keeps her legs straight and wants to bouncy-prance around. This child is going for mobility, ASAP.
Her first word? Dog.
Said very clearly over my shoulder this morning as she looked back at one of our black labs.
Crap.
I really wanted it to be daddy or something…cuter.
Nope. She’s crazy about dogs and cats.
She almost did jumping-jacks in my lap when my sister’s pug came careening into the birthday party last night. Kept shifting her weight and leaning around so she could keep Winnie in sight.
Back to the aforementioned fruit, she will eat so many refried beans I have to cut her off for her diaper’s sake, but makes faces over apples and grapes.
Gripe water has turned into an addiction. I took matters into my own hands and rather than pay $10 for 4oz I asked Lonnie to go get 3 very carefully researched ingredients from the health food store. Now we have made 2 batches of an herbal tea which most babies drink very diluted and sparingly. Not for her. Nope. She will drink it straight or highly diluted. It tastes like unsweetened rootbeer with just a hint of ginger and black liquorish. And she loves it.
She’s had a nap since the previous words, and has scared me to death by proving once again that she has figured out how to get from the middle of our bed to my bedside table in nothing flat. Now we have no time in which to do the sleeping surface enlargement that we have been talking about.
Going in to get her after she woke up I witnessed her up on hands and knees looking toward that table again. Are we going to have a crawler before the age of 7 months?!?
Is that normal?
Whatever. All I know is that Lonnie and I have our hands full, and from here on out we are going to have to wear track shoes to keep up with her.
One minute you’re laughing over how much your kid loves zucchini and peas, the next it’s time to do responsible things… Like remembering you have a blog…
Yeah.
Anyhoo!
Here’s something I ran across while entertaining my munchkin.
I’m going to have to learn the verses for this so I can sing the entire song while pacing with an overtired baby. Much better for my sanity than just singing that short little chorus on repeat. lol
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That’s it for me folks.
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