Fast-Crawl baby complete with bobble head action and clapping motion

The Grandma came and went. It was a quick visit, but fun for all! Poor Grandma Val came right in the middle of a snow storm. We have raved for years about how great Ontario winters are compared to Alberta ones, so we had it coming. Luckily we were still able to get out to Paige's last swimming lesson (where she got her first certificate)--but barely, since the roads were not ploughed and it was a bit chaotic on the roads. It made for a nice and pleasant swimming pool though.



Paige has just started to do a few things. It seems she has replaced "the face" with the bobble head. I wasn't sure before, so I didn't say anything, but when Paige hears music she likes to bobble her head back and forth. Not sure where she got this one from. Sometimes it is in corelation to nothing though, and she will just be crawling along and will bobble her head. I only thought this morning how she barely did "the face" all weekend, but constantly had her little head moving. She has also started to understand waving, and puts her hand up sometimes.


We also witnessed super fast cruising this weekend. Her cruising has been pretty timid and slow up until this point, but one time she just got up and inch, inch, inch, she was moving along quite a bit quicker than usual to get something on the couch. I think it is because it was in all one motion--hands up, onto knees, standing, inch, inch, inch. Like when you sit down at the piano and can just start playing a song without the music--if you look at the music, it screws you up.

Boy am I clever. I have a theory about Paige's sleeping. The first night that Grandma Val was here, unfortunately Paige had the worst sleep since...ever. To be honest, her sleeps have been pretty brutal. But yesterday, I weighed her and she was 21.5 lbs. That means she had gained a pound and a half in about 3 weeks. I think she has gone through a growth spurt! That might account for her generally fussy nature as well. She has also grown out of most of her sleepers. I am wondering if she will grow a little in height too. If she is going to walk at 9 months like her mommy, I think she needs to be a bit taller. I have never seen a baby walking that is as short as Paige.