Wow, I have not written in a long time. Basically we have been on and off sick for the past 2 weeks. The bad thing was that it effected Paige's near perfect sleep record. She started sleeping through the night during the last couple of weeks in April, but as soon as the cold hit she had some pretty rage-filled nights where she would scream and stand up and refuse to do anything but be held. Fun times. I kept telling myself that she will only get bigger and bigger and I will miss these times when I can still fully hold her in my arms and rock her. So it seems that as the cold wears off, her sleeping is getting better. I remember my dad told me that I slept through the night continually at 9 months and I thought, nooooo that is sooooo far away, I won't make it! But here we are!
Anyway, I have to write more often because right now I am finding it difficult to remember what has happened in the last little while. hmm...
Well, something from this week...Paige took her first steps! On Wednesday afternoon I put her in the standing position and backed up from her. She took 3 little steps toward me and then wiped out. She did this whole thing 2 more times (standing, 3 steps), and then she did one time with 4 steps. She didn't totally wipe out either. It was as though she just lost confidence and decided to give up. What is really odd though is she has not done it since. I assumed since she did it the one time she would want to do it again. Nope. In fact, she refuses to stand up when I try to make her...she makes her legs go really limp so that it is impossible. She really doesn't want to try to walk anymore. I don't get it!
She is getting really really good at the cruising though. She can go all over the place and she will even grab her walker and use it to get it to places across the room. She even uses the walker as a prop, like someone would as a cane, and just drags/pushes it along by its "antennae"(it looks like a car), just so she can have something to balance on. So, who knows when she will walk next???
2 more things that Paige says (but has no idea what they mean)..."ya" and "ok". I think I must say these a lot so she is just repeating them, but she walks around and says, "OK, ok, oK". She still says hi and bye a million times a day, and whenever she sees a phone she says "HI!" Like literally EVERY time she sees a phone. If I am on the phone she says Hi, hi, hi again and again. She has stopped saying duckie, but we are pretty sure she has said daddy. No mommy yet, but maybe on mother's day. ha.
I have begun to love going to the grocery store. I used to completely hate it when I was working and when Paige was little. Now I love it because she loves it in a hysterical-like way. She wiggles around in the cart and makes her body jump up and down and she looks at people and make noises. When they actually look at her though she freezes up and gives them her best poker face. She wants people to look at her and give her attention but when they do she gets shy.
The pictures at the top are of Paige and her friends Amy and Clara, and then their is a photo of Paige and Amy on the swings by our house. That day it was really cold but they really wanted to go on the swings (they cry if we pass the swings without going on them). Their hands turned blue from the cold.
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