Karen Chatters » 7 months

Baby steps

Karen — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 00:16:00 +0000

Tomorrow marks Courtney’s 8 month birthday. Can you believe it? I can’t. It’s hard to believe that my baby girl is 2/3 of the way to a year. It’s also hard to believe that in just a month, she will have been in the outside world as long as she was in my stomach. But more on that in a month.

Courtney has been pulling herself up on everything lately. She loves to stand more than just about anything else. No matter how tired she is, she’s on her feet. She’ll even stand at the ottoman and put her head down on it, like she’s resting. But yesterday she decided that standing wasn’t going to cut it anymore. It’s time to get a move on.

Of course, I didn’t have the camera up when she first got going but she was moving around the room for sure!

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Oh, and my baby isn’t really this white trash kid who never wears shirts or pants. These were just special occasions.

A Necessary Evil

Karen — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 11:39:00 +0000

Courtney has been having a rough week. She’s been a little cranky, not sleeping well and gnawing on everything. It would appear that my baby girl is getting some teeth. Not one. Not two. But three teeth at once. From what we can tell, she has 2 on the bottom and 1 on the top. It’s a little hard to tell because she won’t let us in there to see what’s going on so we spend a lot of time trying to get her to open her mouth so we can get a peek of the action. We’ve been trying to use teethers, Motrin, Orajel, teething tablets, cold water, every toy in our stash – anything we can to help to ease the pain. Later today we’ll try some chilled spoons and carrots. Hopefully once they break through the skin, the pain will subside a bit.

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I’ve been up since 4:20 this morning when Courtney got up to eat. I put her back to bed and then just laid there for a while. I finally got up at 6:30 because it seemed like a good time to get up on a SATURDAY. It’s going to be a very long day…

Music to my ears

Karen — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 01:40:00 +0000

We had a great weekend here in the Holder family. We had good weather, cookouts, dinner with friends and lots of quality baby time. Courtney was a real trooper, allowing us to drag her all over, missing naps and going to bed way past her bedtime. She’s harder to manage when she’s over tired, you have to hold her and try and prevent her from poking your eye out or spilling your drink in your lap. She’s wiggly and squirmy and she wants to touch everything and then put it in her mouth but she’s still adorable.

When Courtney is extra tired, we can keep her happy sitting on the floor and playing with her. Sunday was another long day for Courtney and we were just trying to keep her from melting down completely while we waited for her bedtime to get here. Sometimes just a little silliness on our part can result in some of our best times.

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There’s nothing I love more than listening to my baby girl laugh.

Crawling?

Karen — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:43:00 +0000

Well, Courtney did it, she crawled! It may have only been a foot or two but she was on the go. Hopefully she won’t realize she can crawl if she wants to, I’m not quite ready to lose my “freedom.”

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You be the judge, it looks like crawling to me…