The past few weeks Alaina has discovered her lower half -holding her feet, kicking, and most recently, trying to stand. She wants to be “up” all the time these days, either sitting or standing on whomever is holding her. We are very fortunate to have been blessed with the BEST. NEIGHBORS. EVER. -Proven again by Alaina’s reaching of her most recent milestone. Our neighbor Janet dusted off her granddaughter Teagan’s jumperoo and set it up for Alaina to play with. Alaina LOVES it, and we’ve been provided with a source of constant entertainment. Here’s a bit of what we’ve been enjoying the past week:
She isn’t quite tall enough for this thing yet, but she still loves it!
Forget all of the toys and learning activities, Alaina’s favorite thing about the jumperoo is chewing on the seat!
We had to make the floor a little higher, those legs aren’t quite long enough for her to touch just yet. (if you know me, this shouldn’t surprise you. My feet still don’t reach the floor in our truck.)
Woah! What is that thing?
Here she is, telling us all about her new favorite activity.
Love this face!
Another view of her “floor” lifted up.
Chatting with Cooper about her day.
Here she discovered that she can play in the jumperoo AND see the ceiling fan at the SAME TIME. Life doesn’t get much better than this!
Well, its been three months since Alaina joined the Team, and nearly as long since I’ve paid any attention to this site. I really want to get back into writing and using this site as a chronicle of our crazy life. I don’t plan to become a “mommyblogger” but considering my current at home with baby status, there is a good chance most of my writing will have something to do with life with baby.
Alaina is an amazing, happy, healthy baby. We are so lucky! Her arrival into the world started out as a normal “baby is a week late so we’ll try to induce” situation. Everything was going smoothly until two pushes in when it was decided that we’d be having an emergency c-section. Nothing like going all the way through labor to find out that we could’ve scheduled it on a calendar and skipped all those lovely contractions. Good times. Turned out, our little angel had been so active that she’d tied her cord into a True Knot. Apparently, this is pretty rare, and our OB let us know that this kid is destined for big things. One of these days, I’ll take the time to write up her birth story (I know, you’re waiting with baited breath, right? Really, I’m mostly doing this so I have a record somewhere. If you’re interested, great. If not, don’t read it. There won’t be a quiz.)
Anyways, here are some of the highlights of the past three months:
