Some Cute New Things

Anabel is a major dancer. When music comes on or if you sing or hum, Anabel bounces and sways back and forth. It's soooo cute!

She also has started doing this hand movement that I do when I ask her to 'come here'. I fold my fingers back towards me you know, again and again, signaling her to come to me. She now has started doing it. But when she does it, it doesn't always mean 'come here' but it's still uber cute. Usually when she does it she stares and her hand as she is doing it, like 'whoa I'm doing it' LOL.

Anabel has also noticed that when she is eating and she coughs we all turn and check on her and I always say 'are you ok?'. So now she is starting to fake it and then she smiles real big…. Might become annoying later, but right now it's cute, LOL.

Climbing Steps

Yes Anabel figured out how to climb the stairs and about gave me a heart attack. I figured since she hadn't paid any attention to climbing the stairs that it was ok to leave off the baby gate. I closed everything else off in the living room and let her play while I watched TV. I heard her happily squeal and turned to check on her. She was on the fifth step of the stairs smiling huge. I had this image of her falling backwards and I about had a heart attack. I made she to not make much noise because I was afraid she would fall. I quickly went and got her and had to just stand there for a second because I was shaken.

Cheeks to big

Anabel's cheeks are too big for her own good. It's really funny. She is like a chipmunk or something. Food or anything she finds and puts in her mouth usually get caught in her big cheeks and she doesn't realize it's there. I'll find food or pieces of paper just camping out in her cheeks as though she is saving it for later, it's far too funny. I just found wads of paper in both her cheeks and she didn't act like she even knew they were there.

I also love how she just sits so well now. She will crawl to a toy, grab it and sit down and start playing with it like a big girl. I think it's so adorable, it just makes me smile. She is still so little and really short I think, but so big at the same time. We laid her down next to our friends 4 month old and he was almost as tall as her. I'm hoping that means she is going to be more like me and be really short and small. Although they say I'm not that short now, pretty average, but I didn't get that way until I was in my 20's I think. I've always been uber small and I thought I was really short as well. So we shall see how she turns out. I wouldn't mind all my girl to favor my in size, then all the boy favor their daddy.


Anabel loves playing on the bed. She is so cute. I love to watch her play.

So Big

Anabel is getting so big, it just blows me away how much she does and how little she still is.


She sits up on her own and gets in a sitting position on her, you know when she is crawling or rolling around. I believe she is learning the meaning of the words 'mama' and 'dada' that she says all the time. Like yesterday morning (and the recent mornings) she wakes up looks at daddy and whispers with a big smile on her face 'dada, dada'. And Bobby opens his eyes and yes 'yes Anabel, did you call daddy?' and she gets so happy. I think she knows what she was saying and saying it on purpose.

Screaming, standing

Ok this whole 'standing' thing is going to give me a heart attack! Seriously!
Just a minute ago she crawled to her walker, grabbed a hold of the back part and used it to help get a hold of the coffee table so she could stand there and get into all my stuff i had on it. She even fell once, straight back (thank goodness a stuffed animal cushioned her) I'm so afraid she is going to get hurt.

Oh and lately she has all been about 'getting mad' and screaming when she can't do something she wants too. Like right not she is screaming because she has a hold of the leg of the pack'n'play and can't pull it. If she drops her toys, she screams... she screams so much now. Before it was all for fun, now she is serious. It's crazy. She just started do this this last couple of days too.

What toddlerhood going to be like? LOL

She is getting another tooth on the top this time. It's not through the gums yet but i think it's close. She has been wanting to sleep and cuddle alot. Which would be fine sept she throws tantrums because even though she is sleepy she usually doesn't want to actually go to sleep. She still is nursing like crazy, and i've just been letting her... It's getting better (on my part) which is a relief.