Merry Christmas! Today Baby is forty-five weeks old, a fantastic way to mark the occasion. We went to a cousin's house for dinner with the family. Upon entering the house, we were 'ambushed' by her two little boys, who were excited to have a baby visit them. Baby was terribly frightened at first because they were loud and rambunctious, neither of which she is used to. I took her to play away from the boys, and she eventually calmed down, so when the rest of the family arrived, she was less nervous. We had a delicious dinner, which Baby also enjoyed [she apparently likes turkey and ham, as well as mashed potatoes and creamed broccoli].

We didn't officially get Baby anything for Christmas--we buy her many gifts and shower her with love every day of the year--but she did receive a couple presents from family. She got a set of bath toys from Victoria's family, and a musical vibrating elephant thing from the evening's host family. [This musical vibrating elephant could also be 'misused' inappropriately, if you know what I mean.] We will look for things to buy during our eventual shopping trips later.

We are now forty-four weeks old, which also means we are ten months! We took some 'holiday' pictures this week. (I should have taken care of these pictures sooner so we could get the cards mailed on time. They still have not arrived...)

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Here's Baby crawling.



And other fun things...

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Riding up to New York - politely ignore that Baby is not strapped in.

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Riding home - politely ignore the ugly red marks on Baby's nose. (I wasn't watching and she fell off a bed and hit her nose on the leg of a table.)

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This is how Baby sleeps.

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"Please follow my invisible diagram here."

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On Thanksgiving, Baby became forty-one weeks old. To celebrate, she... tumbled off a bed and scraped her little nose. Now she has a red scab.

But we have had some fun developments. Her teeth continue to grow, and new ones come in. She has learned to 'twinkle' (roll her hands back and forth) along to 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.' And in the last two days, she has learned to crawl. (Still deliberately and carefully, but I'll enjoy while I can.) I have attempted to catch the twinkling on video, but she freezes when she sees the camera. We'll work on capturing the crawling this weekend.

No pictures yet. I've been lazy about taking them recently. Will do better this week and weekend.

Baby is thirty-nine weeks and nine months old.

I discovered that Husband and Baby took some photos this week while I was at work and they were home. I'll have to find the picture of me doing the same thing.

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Correction: Tomorrow Baby will be thirty-eight weeks. [Apparently I cannot count well.]

Watching TV

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'I didn't say you could take my picture!'

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Baby does know how to laugh. No more strange guttoral screeches.