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:: 11 mo. now ::


:: Pretty yellow dress ::


:: Let's go play ::


:: Eating cherrios ::


:: After Alie's 1st haircut ::

I am sorry I haven't written in a long while or posted any new pictures. I don't have batteries for my dig. camera, so I haven't been taking pictures. Alison's progression is still about the same. She can't speak any words yet, but she can eat like a toddler. She is now eating big kid food, and cleaning our plates for us. Funny thing is, she is still not able to feed herself very well. We are practicing letting her feed herself, but most of her food ends up in her lap. Oh well. I am proud of her though. She ate rasins for the first time today. She loved them, and even threw a fit when I put them away. Oh, I almost forgot, Alison now has a total of 6 teeth. Four on the top and two on the bottom.



Another bit of news... I am a stay home mom now. This really makes life easier. I will be able to help Alison in her progression much more now. Hopefully I can make a genius out of her, muaahaha!

Yesterday Alison clapped for the first time. She was watching her "Hello Kitty" movies and she gets so excited when they come on. Even though she can't sing, I know she recognizes each song. Well, she was really into the music and started clapping to it. It was so cute!!! I got all excited because she was clapping, so I started laughing. This made her start laughing and clapping even more. Gosh she is just too darn cute for words.

Alison is now 9 mo. and has 4 teeth. She really likes to use them too. She is now eating some solid, big people foods. She is also pulling herself up to a stand. She will stand there, with both feet on top of each other. She is a bit pigeon-toed. It is too cute! She will also lift one leg up high to practice standing on one foot at a time. She will even walk along the coffee table, or if you are sitting close, she will let go and turn around toward you as if she is going to walk. She ends up free falling, but luckly, I always catch her. She is going to be walking sooner than Kriss would like. We will have one nervous Daddy! He always gets freaked out about her falling and such. Poor baby will probably have Daddy hovering around all her life, hehe.

Kriss got a new computer program, so he has been taping Alison with the video camera more now. It allows you to make the videos right on your computer and store them there. Thing is, each video is HUGE! So big, that it is the size of a program or two. There is no way that we can email them to people or even display them here. The site would never pull up, so, unfortunatly, I can't host them for ya.

She is crawling around much more now. And of course, getting bigger and bigger everytime I look at her. I can't believe that she is 8 months now. Seems just like yesterday she was born. I don't know how parents do this. I almost break down each month, realizing, I will never see that month of her life again. Makes me cherish each day with her and her progress so much more.

Alie cut her second tooth on Wednesday. You can't see it, but you can feel it. Now she won't look so funny with her one tooth.

Alison can now almost crawl like a pro. She is getting better and better at it everyday. She also has several new tricks that she has added in the last few weeks. About 3 weeks ago, she learned how to wave. At first we really didn't think she was really waving, but she kept doing it so much when she would see someone, that we finally figured she knew what she was doing. Just today she figured out how to make farting noises on her arm. Not that she knows it is farting noises, but she does like the noise non the less. She will entertain herself by taking her arm and making the "ba ba ba" sound really fast or just blow on her arm to get the "Ptttthhhh" sound. She now also shakes her head like saying "no". This is another new trick she learned today. She doesn't realize that she is saying no yet, but likes the new rhymthmic movement that she makes. She was so hyper today, we could hardly get her to calm down to go to bed.