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I got up and hung out with Mom (I was in an especially good) until Nana came over.  I had breakfast at 7:30.  I spent most of the morning playing with Nana, walking holding just one hand, and cruising along the big gate in the living room.  Nana has been making me practice crawling backward down the two steps from the kitchen, but I still haven’t really gotten the hang of it.  I got to eat one of my favorite dishes for lunch (chicken curry — if only it were a finger food!) and a totally new dish: rice noodles (because I’m not allowed to have wheat yet!).  As soon as I finished, I was surprised to see that Mom had come home early to spend the afternoon with me.

It was great to have Mom around, but she was definitely multi-tasking me as she also did a bunch of stuff for work.  I had a teething biscuit around 2:00, my bottle at 3:00 and then napped from 3:30 to 5:30 (the first 20 minutes or so of which I spent crying in my crib!).

I had dinner at 6:00 and just as I was finishing I got a surprise — Dad got home early!  He was so excited to see me and we just started shrieking at each other like we usually do to greet each other when it’s been a while.  Mom, Dad, and I played until about 7:00, when Dad gave me my bath and put me to bed.

I had a really good morning today. I ate all of my breakfast, played a lot, and read a lot of books.  I had a slightly easier time pooping this morning, but it seems like this shouldn’t be so hard (pun intended!).

I took a good nap around 10:00 and then went about disassembling my play mat.  I like it that Nana will scream with me (just like Dad does) when I get excited about something.

My newest food is succotash, which was yummy and makes for good finger food.  I devoured it and everything else I had for lunch.  Hey, it’s hard keeping my belly as big as it is!  I took another good nap in the afternoon and then soon enough Mom got home.

Mon and I played quite a bit  of pat-a-cake and then I got a bath (even though I took one yesterday!).  Apparently Mom doesn’t think it’s a good idea for me to go to sleep with food in my hair.  What’s the big deal with that?

I can speak!  My first official word is “up”.  Whenever I want to get picked up, I walk over to someone and say “up, up!”

I got to spend so much time with Nana these two days; it was so fun.

On Tuesday I didn’t really want to nap when I was supposed.  My 9:00 nap became a 10:15 nap and my 3:00 nap became a 4:20 nap.  I also had cried quite a bit because I was still a bit backed up and not really pooping quite as easily as I’d like.

Wednesday marked the second day of no bananas and extra prunes as we all tried to get things moving again.    Nana and I spent quite a bit of time reading and playing with my blocks.  We count them together as we build a really tall tower and then I take great pleasure in knocking it down…and starting all over again!

Dad got me out of my crib when I woke up this morning, and I was happy to see that I had gotten up in time to see Mom a bit before she left for work.  Dad and I went downstairs to play until Nana came over.  Apparently it wasn’t enough for Dad to make me crawl across the room to get my bottle.  Now he puts in the kitchen and puts the bottle in the dining room and makes me crawl down two steps to get it!  I don’t even know how to crawl down stairs yet!

Nana came by and was obviously very happy to see me.  I gave her a big smile and a wave and crawled over to greet her.  She was pretty amazed to see my new eating style (even turning oatmeal into a finger food!) and  my strong preference for O’s (even this new less yummy brand)!

Dad went downstairs to work and I played with Nan all day.  Dad came up to check on us a lot, and he would make little hissing sounds and make me try to figure where he was coming from!  We didn’t get to go outside, but I can tell Nana is really excited to get to take me to the park.  We looked out the window and saw some dogs, which reminded us of last summer.

Quick break! Here are the highlights of last month:

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I had lunch (Dad joined us briefly), played, and then Nana gave me my 3:00 bottle.  I didn’t really nap well in the afternoon (or in the morning, for that matter), but I think it’s because I ate too much banana and not enough prunes, if you know what I mean.   Nana had let me play with a flash light when I visited yesterday, so Dad brought me up a flashlight from downstairs.  I really enjoyed playing with it (i.e., eating it).

Dad took over when Nana left and we played down in the office until Mom got home.  Mom fed me dinner and then Dad gave me my bath and put me to bed.

I got up around 6:00 with Dad and we played (as quietly as possible!) until 8:00 when Mom got up and joined us.  I had a good nap around 9:00 and then lunch at 11:30 before taking off to visit Nana & Grandpa Yagan.

I hadn’t seen Grandpa in about a week and he was really happy to see me.  Even though he’s not supposed to be lifting more than 5 pounds, he couldn’t resist lifting me up and setting me on his lap.

Then Mom & Dad & I went to Target.  I had a really fun time.  The carts have really deep seats for babies so I felt like I was swimming in my cart cushion.  I was excited because I got new shoes (we had to exchange a gift from Aunt Claire for a bigger size).  Mom and Dad got a few things, too.  We stopped by home for just a few minutes (long enough for me to drink some formula) and then we hopped back in the car and took off for my first super bowl party at Chris’s & Cate’s house.

I took nap on the hour-long car ride over to Batavia.  The party was really fun.  I made a new friend, McKenna, who was born just a couple weeks after I was. She likes spoons almost as much as I do!  She’s way smaller than I am.  I was jealous that her mom let her eat a cucumber right off the veggie tray!

We left at half-time and I fell asleep in my car seat.  Mom managed to get me out of the car and into the crib without much fuss, and I was back to sleep in no time.