Her laugh

She laughs like her mama. She snorts and she gasps fr air when she gets laughing hard. I love it.

Happy 9 months Maddy

My little Maddy is nine months today. I can't believe it - she's getting so big. We celebrated her 9 months by trying out new table foods at dinner. The carrots didn't go over so well, but she loves the "puffs". She's getting to the point that she wants different foods - not just her baby food. The biggest change in the last week or so is the need to stand up. She LOVES to stand up. I'm hoping she starts cruising soon. She is trying.

So cute in her sleep

Maddy is so darn cute when she sleeps. She sleeps on her side or on her tummy. Most mornings, I find her in one of those positions with her hands on her face or in her mouth. She always wakes with a smile and a giggle. She's so happy. As soon as I pick her up, she starts looking around as if she doesn't want to miss anything.

My food is crawling

Tonight, we made a really simple dinner - turkey, mixed veggies and blackberries. Odd, but Reagan likes fruit. As we sat down and started to eat, she started complaining that her food was crawling. Hmm. Really? Yes - REALLY! There were tiny little bugs crawling on her plate. The only thing we could come up with was that the blackberries had bugs. ICK! EW! Jim and I didn't have fruit or bugs. Bummer dude. (oh - Jim ate some of the berries before he even put any on her plate ha ha)

Violin

Reagan is really doing well on the violin. Her lesson was to review the "A" and "E" strings playing Mississippi Hot Dog. She got that. Her teacher had her move on from there and taught her the first finger on the E string - the "F#". Yea!!! So this week she gets to practice the first part of Twinkle. I think I'm probably more excited than her.

Water Babies

Maddy is a natural in the water. She got in today for the first time and just flipped to her back. It was really interesting. She just hung out. No big deal. Reagan decided to try to swim without her swimmies. She still doesn't like to get her face to wet. But she will try. She and Jordan played a lot with the dive rings. Jordan dove into the water for them. Reagan pointed to where they were. It was cute.

Oh yea - four lessons, four notes. Hmmm. Think she's getting more from this teacher. :)

Moving on up

Maddy got moved up to the movers room at church. I was a little nervous since it is a big transition. She did fine. She crawled around quite a bit and played on the floor. She drained a bottle for the workers and took a nice little nap on Jeanine's husband. :)