Thai idol

Yesterday John suprised me by taking me out to my favorite resturant for lunch, Magic Noodle a Thai resturant. It happned that we were the only customers and so the entire staff loved all over V. It was adorable! They ended up picking her up and showing her off to everyone that worked there, including grandma back in the kitchen. Every few seconds grandma would appear from the kitchen with a new toy for V to play with. We ended up leaving the resturant with a blue hippo that they gave her. Of course V loved it there because she was the center of attention.

I have come to the conclusion that Baby Einstein is like a hard drug for babies. Virginia gets hooked on it and looses all knowledge of her surroundings when she is watching it. As soon as she sees the catipiller come on in the beginning she is gone! John took some pictures of her sitting in her chair with her "dea-dea" watching her show. She looked so big sitting there on her own.

the mess

I have been trying to teach Virginia not to mess with the DVD's on the shelf in the dining room. Does she listen to me? NO! I am tired to smacking her hand all of the time so I have decided that when I tell her now 3 or 4 times and she is not listening that I will put her in her room and shut her door for 5 minutes. I did this the other day and the pictures that follow are what happened in a short 5 minute time span. The funny thing was that she didn't do it because she was upset, she just likes to pull EVERYTHING out of her drawers and off of her bookshelf.

You know you are in SWMO when...

You have your daughter wear shorts on Thursday and then it snows on Saturday and you have to bundle up your child to go to church on Sunday...crazy!!!
Virginia has 7 teeth now. Four on top and three on bottom. Your top teeth never caused her any trouble but her bottom teeth seem to hurt her a lot! Her seventh tooth is on the bottom and she screams and cries and has a runny nose from it. Today in church she was uncontrolable. I had to get up with her at the end because she was so loud. I know that it hurts her a lot and I feel so bad.

life goes on

Virginia is still not walking. I try to coax her but it just dosen't work. She just drops down and crawls. I know that she will do it when she wants but I am just getting anxious.
Picture 1: V in her Valentines dress from her Oma and Opa
Picture 2: V's Valentines gift from her Oma and Opa (she was REALLY excited!)
Picture 3: rocking out in the kitchen
Picture 4: Superbowl Sunday! We were wishful thinking with the Chiefs cheerleading outfit.

a walk to the post office

It is such a wonderful day out today! I decided to take V for a walk. We enjoyed it so much!!! We went to the post office and the pet shop. V loved to look at the birds and pet the rabbit and hamsters. The had HUGE fish that she gawked at.
Tomorrow Virginia and I are going to take Gavin to the park that is down the street from us. The two of them are going to have a TON of fun!! I can't wait to see that.

..when you are having fun!

Time has flown by! I can't believe that Virginia is one! Just one year ago today V was released from the hospital. I remember being so scared that I was going to have to remember to feed her at certain intervals and was going to put her in her own bed. It was so nice having nurses doing those things for me! I remember sleeping on a VERY uncomfortable pull-out recliner in the NICU the night before. I don't think I slept at all that night!
Now I look at Virginia and see her walking around furniture, giggling, having a temper, having favorite toys and books and many many other personality traits. It is amazing! I am very proud of myself that I have not cried just thinking about it.

baby stepping to the door, baby stepping out the door...

I laughed outloud as I was typing the title for this post. If you don't know, that is Bill Murray in What About Bob. Anyway, it relates to what I am writing about because V is starting to finally take an interest in walking. She will hold onto my hands as I lead her around the house. It makes me happy! I know that she is still ahead of the learning curve but I was afraid she wouldn't start until after she was a year. She is very proud of herself as she is taking her "baby steps".

Virginia has a hatred for all things stacked. I love to play with her wooden blocks and stack them high until they fall (what can I say, I like to play with toys!). As soon as Virginia has spotted what I am doing she make a bee line straight for me and knocks down my blocks. It would be different if she were laughing and found this amuseing but she dosen't. Virginia knocks down my blocks with a straight face, neither happy or angry, and then goes about doing what she was doing before. It is very odd. I have now started a game with myself to see how high I can stack her blocks, cherrios, anything, before she spots me and knocks them down.

V has figured out that she has four teeth now and that means she can bite her spoon when she is eating. I was trying to feed her dinner last night when she would all of a sudden bite down on the spoon and not let me have it. She found this hilarious (I did too)!

Only 19 days until she turns ONE!!!