New Tricks!

I have been meaning to post these pictures and videos for a few days so there are quite a few.  The past few weeks she has loved pulling herself up next to things-the couch, piano bench during lessons, my legs, a basket, the side of the tub, pretty much anything she can.  She always does it one of two ways- She deliberately puts one hand and then the other.  Then she either pops her knees out to a push up position and walk forward or "walk" forward on her knees and then stand. I am sure you didn't want all that detail, but I wanted to remember it.  She gets so excited and looks around to make sure you are watching her when/after she has done it.  Her other new trick is to wave.  It is pretty cute because she will wave when Ryan leaves for work and sometimes if you just go into the other room and come back, or other random times.  She gets pretty excited and thinks she is all grown up.  She is such a happy baby UNLESS she is teething.  I HATE TEETHING!!! She got 2 at the same time a few months ago, but she has been working on this one top tooth for a few weeks now.  We have tried so many different things and they help some, but she still doesn't sleep as well as she usually would.  It is finally all cut through! Hooray! Seriously though, other than that she is always happy.  I love all of her smiles and laughs.  She is so playful and really just makes me so happy! I miss teaching so much, but I am so glad that she is here and I can't imagine life without her! The first picture is one random day when we got home.  Her bow is pulled off (in the middle of the picture) and she apparently was looking at her book before she fell asleep.

She got a little distracted as she was crawling, but I love her cute little laugh.  Please ignore the annoying voice (mine) in the next video of her waving! The last video is her pulling herself up onto the chair.  She thinks she is pretty big-time, but I thought it was pretty cute.