Little Tottler

Ever since Wednesday, Sweetpea has been staying off the ground and off the crawling position. We're amazed how long she can go. One could say that she is now officially walking. Yay! Our little Sweetpea is growing so fast. She's not completely stable, but she is very determined. When she falls, she gets back up and goes again. On Wednesday, I just noticed her repeatedly walking back and forth between the kitchen and the family room while I was preparing some food or washing dishes. It was cute to see her come near me, circle around, go to the family room, and circle around back to me. We even played a little game of me chasing after her to get her diapers and pants back on... such a funny little girl, but we love to hear her laugh.

On Thursday, she also surprised me by saying "poo poo" right before she actually went #. This could be the right direction towards helping he with potty training later on :) Something tells us that she now really understands "no." Before, during meal times we'd give her food and she would just start playing and tossing them over when she was done, and of course, turn her head away and wave off our hands (which had the spoon of food). She did know and do the sign for "all done," but sometimes we weren't sure anyways or wanted to get a few more bites in, so we'd try. Now, no is definitely no. She says "no" with an abrupt and deep voice along with shaking her head back and forth. Too funny. We've also learned that it's hard to say no to her, and we usually give her what she wants when she says and does the sign for "please." Uh-oh, we're in trouble. Another thing we should probably note down or document is that she naturally stopped nursing on her own when she reached 14 months, so now mommy is more free. Oh, where did all the time go? It seems that we just brought her home a few days ago. It has definitely been a joy to be a part of Sweetpea's life and a privilege to be her parents.

Sweetpea's Cute New Squeaks

Sweetpea just got these adorable new shoes and seems to really like them. Some of you may remember owning a pair of these while growing up. Here's her trying them on and her reaction when she discovered they weren't just any ordinary shoes:

She seemed to be fascinated with them and enjoys putting them on around the house. When we first tried to take them off of her, she objected. It's fun to see how happy and intrigued she was. The other nice thing about the squeaky shoes is that it has nice flexible soles, plus it helps us keep track of her. Also, it's suppose to encourage crawlers to begin walking and toddlers to walk with proper walking technique, since they must walk heal to toe to make it squeak. Seems that it has worked (or maybe just coincidentally), but she seemed to have tried to stay up longer with them on. What about when we're tired of hearing the squeaks, you ask? Well, they have the ingenious feature of being temporarily silenced with tape or completely removed, leaving just the cute shoes.

Fun With Monkey

14 months and growing

Last Wednesday was Sweetpea's 14 month birthday. Here's what our funny girl has been doing lately:


Sweetpea started getting up and trying to walk at about 13 and a half months. The last time she made major developments was when we were in Virginia in May. At that time, she started doing many things including crawling which is something that we thought she would never do since she disliked tummy time and being on the floor. What a surprise when she started crawling around late; since she was an early cruiser, we figured she would go right into walking early. Alas, babies do have their own timing indeed. We're told that they just get up and go one day... something just clicks in their brain, and they just know how to walk on their own.... It keeps us on our toes as we anticipate this exciting moment and as we worry about her falling and hitting something every time she attempts to stand up and try.

Crawling or walking, once Sweetpea was mobile, we knew we had to do a bit of baby-proofing around the house especially with the stairs. Here's her reaction to that: