How did this happen? Since Thanksgiving Liza has been toying with the idea of crawling. She started by just laying on her belly and waving her arms and legs in a "swimming frog" motion. Then she would push up on her arms. Eventually she got on all fours and rocked back and forth for a while before going back onto her belly. Finally, she mastered the skill of putting herself into a sitting position, and going from sitting to all fours and back again.
Last Saturday, after being able to somewhat scoot for very short distances, she actually crawled! It was so cute! She keeps one leg straight out to the side a lot of the time like spiderman. Last Saturday my mom was here visiting and I'm so happy she was able to see Liza crawl. They were sitting on the runner in our hallway, and Liza was scooting and sitting. Ryan said "Ok, we are going to try this." and took a toy and placed it about 4 or 5 feet away. And she went for it! She crawled over and got it!
Now she crawls all the time. At the library on Tuesday she crawled over to the middle of the room when they put the toys out.
Another adorable thing happening is that she "feeds" her baby dolls with the play food she has, and also gives them her binky. She will give Ryan and I her binky too and smile and its the cutest thing ever! My mom taught her this too. I have to admit I was doubtful when I heard them playing, that my 8 month old would be able to give her binky to a doll and to me, but she does! Right to the mouth!
She's consistently giving is about 4 nights a week of sleeping all the way through to the 7 o'clock hour. With the other 3 nights getting up to eat around 3:30-4:30am, but then going back to bed til 7:30ish. I do have to put the binky back in a time or two most nights, but over all she is sleeping well and I can't complain.
We've been enjoying our Music Together classes, our library story time, our mom group, and our swim lessons. She is adorable in her little sailboat and lobster swim suit. She likes the water and splashes her hands around as soon as we get in. Last week she did fuss for a few minutes in the middle of the lesson, but that was out of character, and I think maybe she was getting cold. I just held her pretty close for the rest of the lesson and she was fine.
We've been enjoying some play dates with our friends. We go over to Shannon and her 14th month old son's house about once a week to hang out and play, and we had a couple moms over after the snow storm a couple weeks ago.
Liza has really expanded my social life. I went from having 0.0 friends here in Harrisburg to having several moms that I consider to be my friends. I'm excited to watch our babies grow up and become friends too.
I've been following a few couponing pages on Facebook, and found us a code for Redbox, so we watched "Hotel Transylvania last night. I liked it! It was hard trying to keep Liza from watching, as we dont want her watching TV until she's older. We draped a blanket over the rails of her playyard, which worked for a while.
We are going to Florida in about 5 days. I'm a little nervous to fly and travel with Liza. I'm sure its going to be fine, we have a direct flight and a great place to stay, so I know theres really nothing to worry about. I can't wait for her to see the beach and ocean for the first time! Last summer she didn't see the ocean in New Jersey, she was asleep in the stroller.
