9 months

Happy 9 months Geneva! Everywhere we go Geneva makes instant friends. Everyone always comments on how beautiful her eyes are. She usually smiles for strangers if they make faces at her. This month she started pivoting in a circle (counter-clockwise only). A week later she progressed to scooting towards objects. This week she's started getting up on her knees, so crawling must be soon! I'm happy she's taken this long since I've been able to have so much freedom around the house. It will be a major adjustment to have a mobile baby. Geneva is still toothless, but that doesn't stop her from eating most table foods. She loves drinking water from her sippy and then spitting most of it back out. She is also quite vocal - "na" is her new favorite syllable to repeat... and yell.

*Edit* I forgot to add her 9 month stats! She is 16 lb 9 oz (10-25% -- small fry), and 27" (50-75%).

Pounding a sippy cup. Sorry for the weird sound on this one. It makes the pounding a little more dramatic, though.

A little bit of scooting action

Staring contest

Pretty face

I left the room for two minutes.... She's a baby genius!

Happy Easter!

The only treat G got on Easter

Summer hat

Winter hat, and swinging

First pigtails! Thanks Aunt Alexis!

Cousin twins

Sippy cup party

Feeding Kayla some Little People

Meeting a creepy bunny. Not even phased.

How the blanket pictures actually went...

Beautiful girl

8 months

Our Geneva baby is 8 months old now! She loves to stick out her tongue and babble all the time. Not much has changed in the last month, still enjoys sitting and playing. She has gotten a little bit more adventurous with lunging for toys, but only on mom and dad's soft, cushy bed or off of mom's lap. She loves going for walks in the Bjorn (which is also a great workout for mom), and just silently watches the world in awe. She will grab anything put in front of her - or anywhere near her. She especially loves grabbing mom's hair while nursing. We're just enjoying watching her grow and learn about the world.

Right after this video, she lunged again and hurt her nose on a toy.... maybe it was a little scarring.

Phone enticement. Just ignore the "ouch" at the end (I bumped my knee).

Wee bit of babbling, and of course, grabbing for the camera.

Tongue. Always tasting the air.

I don't usually have her closet open, so when I do open it, she stares at the novelty.

Eating toys, as usual.

Learning the alphabet (minus D and I) and numbers... or just eating them.

LOVE

A rare picture with mommy! This is the one where mommy looks best, not baby.

Face off with the phone. "Do I want it bad enough?"

Reaching for the camera. This may be the  only shot I get in the future.

Little trip to Snoqualmie Falls. The sun came out!

More tongue action.

So amazed by the amazingness of overalls.

Driving lessons.

Henry's gorgeous Valentine's date

Standing at the mirror. A new trick.

7 months

Happy 7 months of life, Geneva! She is our crazy little miss. She is content just sitting on a blanket and emptying her basket of toys. She holds each one for a second or two, tastes it, and then puts it to the side. Then when she's done with the toys, she plays with the basket. No hint of crawling yet, but that's just fine with me! If there's a toy out of her reach, she just stretches really far (and I mean crazy far), and if she still can't reach it, she gives up and gets something else, or makes noise until someone responds. Her favorite foods so far are cheerios and apples, she doesn't seem to be a big fan of eating purees from a spoon... so she likes those things she can eat herself. Right now we're practicing a form of medieval baby torture shown here:

One day she'll thank us... maybe. I'm also trying the Nose Frida, where I suck the snot myself, and it didn't take long for her to figure out that it was a modern cousin to the implement above.



Anyway, on to the pictures and my hilarious captions!

Trying to get Geneva to stretch for toys

Sucking on her lip while out on a walk

Daddy making Geneva laugh by kissing her tummy. She always laughs harder and longer BEFORE we get the camera out.

One of her favorite toys, spatula.

Cute heart pockets on the bum. I had to be quick to get this picture because she rolls over pretty quick after I put her on her stomach!

Uh mom... is this what you call a toy? Thanks...

Geneva's new playpen

I found them like this after coming home from choir one Sunday, but Henry woke up as I tried to take a picture.  He was sweet enough to try and recreate the moment for me.

First time in a shopping cart like a big kid! She gets scared of the fast movement, so I have to drive very carefully...

Just being cute.

Playing on her "drum". This is one of her new favorite toys, just an  old popcorn tin.

This is how she plays with her toys, out of the basket, into the mouth, into another pile.

LM = Little Miss

Mmm carrots! More fun everywhere but in the mouth...

The following are pictures that some other moms took at a picture playdate at the park (say that ten times fast). It was pretty cold, but Geneva seemed to do just fine when I held her. It was when I put her down on a blanket with some other babies that the trouble began -- see the last picture.

6 months

Geneva is now just over six months old! She weighs 14 lbs 11 oz (25 %tile) and is 26 inches long (50-75%tile). She sits up by herself and babbles a lot. She has what to me seems like a good amount of hair, until I see any other baby, and then I realize just how bald she is. Her hair is coming in a blondish-brown, but it looks really golden in the light. She loves sticking everything in her mouth, except food that is. No luck yet with rice cereal, avocado, or carrots. We've left her with babysitters three times now, and we now know for sure that she likes her parents. Maybe too much, since she cried a crazy cry like she was hyperventilating... We'll keep trying :)

Sitting like a pro

In her fancy jacket

 Blue eyes

Eating banana. The only time she'll eat anything is in that mesh bag!

Happy baby!

Surprised look, with a nice drool touch

An acrostic poem and note from a girl who used to be in my Primary class :)

Daddy putting Geneva to sleep

Playing with spoons and a bowl in her high chair

All ready for an outing - Daddy style

Baby trap! She was just playing on her playmat and I found her stuck like this.

Bewildered by the snow at Bellevue's Snowflake Lane

Another Snowflake Lane shot, we have to make fake snow here in Washington.

Sometimes she laughs for us.... other times she just gets confused...