My Pink Eyed Girl

Catching up on posting old blog posts....

Naomi started showing signs of pink eye last Friday and woke up with a raging case of it on Saturday morning particularly in her right eye.  

Don't I look pitiful?

So Saturday, we took her to an after hours pediatric clinic (the place was recommended by a friend and I really like it - regular co-pay and all about the kiddos).  She was her usual happy self.  

Wordless Wednesday

Riding my zebra... and sometimes sliding off my zebra... (once again, sorry for the camera phone quality pics, but it's handy).

Naomi and her Dino

As I mentioned in her 11 Month Post, Naomi is cruising and loves going around the living room on her Dino.  This is from a couple of weeks ago, so she is a lot more agile on it now, but here is a video... (oh and sorry for the iPhone quality).  

Naomi and the Christmas Tree

Naomi loves the Christmas tree... a little too much.  


We are constantly having to pull her out from under it - 
"No pulling the tree"
"No unwrapping gifts that aren't yours"
"No eating lightbulbs"... 
"Pulling is bad"
"Lightbulbs are ouchy", etc.  


It is definitely a full-time job.  


She finds the handful of things in the house that we wish she wouldn't play with and she goes after those things.  I'll have more pictures to prove it soon.  (As a responsible Mommy, I try to photograph the bad behavior before stopping it.)  :)  


These are pictures of her first supervised trip to the tree a couple weeks ago.  

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Naomi at the bookstore waiting to see Santa...

11 Months Old

Stats?
About 18.25 lbs (?%), ? in long (?%), and ? cm head circumference.
She's in size 3 diapers and her 9 month clothes. 
(We'll have more complete stats at her 1 year well-baby visit.)


How is she sleeping?
At the beginning of this month we noticed she was pushing up on the crib bumpers in an attempt to stand up (yes, I know they're not supposed to be in there), so we removed the bumpers and dropped the crib down to the middle setting.  The one bumper free night was horrible and I came in to find her with her leg between two slats; she moves a lot in her sleep.  So, we put in a breathable crib bumper and that works great.  She can stand up in her crib now, so we'll be dropping it to the lowest setting in the near future.  Otherwise, no change in her sleep as we're on pretty much the same schedule.  


How is she eating?
She's still rocking out the finger foods and sippy cup.  We've been trying more table foods this month.  She's choked a couple of times (which results in barf since she has such a strong gag reflex), but mostly she's done really well.  She's had various types/styles of potatoes, eggs, chicken, tilapia, various pasta/bread products, and various little veggies.  I'm still nursing her about 4 times a day, so we have dropped a feeding.  Around her first birthday, I plan to get her down to 2 a day and we'll go from there.  Sometimes I can't believe I made it this long.  


Doctor Visit
No check-ups until 1 year.  She got her flu shot booster which caused some grumpiness for a couple of days, but that's it.  


What new tricks does she do?
Her army crawling is fast and furious and she has tried standard crawling some.  
She pulls up on things other than Mommy and Daddy. 
She is a very proficient cruiser.  She goes all over the living room and even sometimes into other rooms holding anything she can including walls, etc.  We got her a Dino walker and she has gotten really good at pushing it around and using it in various ways to get where she wants to go.  
Sometimes when she's hungry, she'll grab my hands and walk over to her highchair and then put her hands up so she'll get fed.  
After a summer and a semester of Tiny Tots, she finally shakes her little shaker instead of just eating it, so I'm proud.  
Verbally, she's still babbling away and we still can't make sense of it most of the time.  Occasionally we've thought that we've heard an actual word, but we're not sure if it's just wishful thinking on our part, so we'll just be patient.  We've attempted teaching signs, but she doesn't seem to have any interest, we'll see.  


General Observations?
She has 6 teeth so far - 2 on bottom and 4 on top though her lip keeps them from view so far.
We're planning her first birthday party and it's just mind boggling.  
She is still such a happy and gregarious baby.  She seems to make friends everywhere she goes.  She is such a shining light in the world (at least to us).  


Until next time... Enjoy!  

Naomi's First Trip to See Santa

We had talked about going to see Santa at Northpark, but we happened to be going up to Allen today, so decided to just try to see Santa at the Village at Fairview.  There was a virtual waiting line that we called into, so we were able to eat lunch while waiting.


Once we got to the front of the virtual line, we checked in with the front desk and got in the short Santa line (generally about 5 families at a time in line).  It really was a pretty good system.  The only hitch for us was that the camera malfunctioned while we were in line, so the photographer had to get it going again which resulted in some delay.


At this point, we are right during Naomi's naptime and I'm a little worried, but she seemed pretty entertained by all the surrounding people and stuff.  Once it was our turn we got Naomi ready, handed her to Santa and they snapped away.  They gave us very specific instructions as sometimes babies in her age group don't do well with Santa.  Naomi was her usual gregarious self and did great with Santa and took a bunch of great pics.


So without any more blabbing by me, here are the rest of the best ones.... Enjoy!