Lorelei

Rory is 10 months and 1 day old today....she's been wearing 12 month clothes for a couple of months already.....every person who sees her lately (now that it's warm and she's usually wearing shorts or a dress) asks if they can squeeze her thighs. I usually let them because they really are irresistable thighs! After such peanuts, it's so strange to me to see the rolls on her. She's been working on trying to walk...she's been cruising for quite a while and I'm happy that she hasn't put it together, but I do think it'll be any day now that we'll be chasing after her.

Her spitting up has practically stopped....probably as her intake of solids increased. She loves food...the baby food in jars is a game to her....how much can she wear! She wants to eat whatever we're eating, so I usually indulge her and just cut it up as small as I can. This does make packing up for work hard because I don't know what to pack for her....I'm working on that one! I made scrambled eggs with onion, tomato, and cheese last weekend and she inhaled it! I couldn't believe how much she ate!

She's been doing peek-a-boo lately, too...but instead of covering her eyes, she covers her ears and you get to see the dimples on her elbows- heavenly! She loves clapping her hands, particularly when "We will rock you" comes on. This is Baz's favorite song of the moment and I like putting it on because it makes all the kids happy.

I still maintain that Lorelei is the easiest baby of the bunch....she still wakes once or twice during the night usually (she has slept through on occasion!), but she goes down for the night and naps like a dream. After a bottle, I put her down, wave goodbye, and leave the room and she plays for a few minutes, then goes to sleep. Baz did this too, but Anya took HOURS to get to sleep. I remember sitting outside her room in a kitchen chair forever to make sure she stayed in bed. Or going in to her in the nursery time after time after time when she would cry and cry and cry- that was painful for all of us!

Lorelei is also easy when it comes to naps, or lack thereof. She typically takes 2 naps now- one for 1 hour and one for 2 hours, but if she misses one, she's fine. Maybe a little fussy, but still all smiles and easygoing. She'll even take a nap in the stroller sometimes! She did this at Mike and Jen's on Sunday....we got there around 2, so she still had a nap to take and sure enough- sometime around 5, I plopped her in the stroller with a bottle and she fell asleep.

I'm pretty sure she's up to 8 teeth now. This is notable because at 10 months, neither of the other 2 kids had any teeth. She's got a few words....mama, dada, wow, and uh-oh. uh oh was a surprise....a couple of weeks ago, Sue was over and sitting next to L and said uh oh when she fell or dropped something. Rory repeated it, but it sounded much too perfect, so we chalked it up to coincidence. However, the rest of the day she kept repeating uh oh, uh oh, uh oh....over and over and over!

That's all I can think of now about Rory-bug, but I'm going to try realllllly hard to update here more often with the little cutenesses that happen every day.

Like when I go in to her in the morning and her face lights up! She always pulls herself up as quickly as possible and grabs onto me so tightly- pure delight! I love how she buries her face in my chest- just for a hug, as if she can't get close enough. Ahhhhhhhh...how am I going to make it through the years between when my kids are babies and they have babies for me to hold and care for?????