Playtime

Q does not like to be left out!  No matter what the activity is she finds a way to work herself into it, and I love it!  Y is okay with it most times but it depends on the activity. 

Recently Y has really started to spend a lot of time coloring which she likes to do while laying on the floor.  The problem with that is that Q is always rolling around on the floor (she's starting to attempt to get on her knees now too) and she always works herself over to wherever Y happens to be.  Q will then start grabbing the crayons, markers and the coloring book until Y will eventually get frustrated and move somewhere else.  It'll take Q a while but she always eventually works her way over to Y's new location and it all starts up again!  It can be very entertaining to watch.

So tonight when Y asked to play her ABC board game with me I sat down on the floor with her and gave Q a different toy to play with.  But as evidenced by the photos below she was not interested in  that toy at all - she wanted to play with us!  She was surprisingly gentle with everything and didn't even try to put anything in her mouth.  After watching us move the pieces around the board she started trying it as well.  She's very perceptive and never misses a beat, that's for sure!

Yogurt

As you probably already know Y always, always, always provides us with laughs and today's conversation was no different.  It went something like this:

Y: Mommy lets do some exercises.

Me: What kind of exercises?
Y: How about yogurt?
Me: You me yoga?
Y: Blank stare

And of course once she pulled out the yoga mat and began striking poses, it was my motherly duty to pull out the camera!  She's actually not that bad (but then again, I'm no yoga expert)!

Another Princess

Up until last summer (2011) Y had never seen a princess movie.  But that ended when she went to spend a few days with Grandpa P and Nana B. for the first time without myself or B being there.  Well, ever since then she hadn't stopped talking about princesses (but don't worry she's still a big Tinkerbell and fairy fan). 

It was all quite strange to me because I was never into princesses as a little girl and I can't ever remember seeing any of the Disney Princess movies as a child, in fact watching them with Y was pretty much the first time I had seen them (that's not an exaggeration). 

So even though Y was almost 3 when she first discovered the princesses, that won't be the case for Q!  As you can see below Y has already started to indoctrinate her with all things princess.  I guess at this point I should express my gratitude for our second child being a girl!

Peaches

Q has several nicknames that we use interchangeably around here and I'm thinking that we may have to add one to the list - Peaches! 

I'm a fairly predictable person, I have a banana every morning with my breakfast but on this particular morning I was out of bananas so I pulled out 2 peaches instead.  I didn't plan on eating both but took out a second and cleaned it just in case Y decided she wanted one too.  Well sure enough I take one bite into the peach and Y asks for a bite of it and then asks for the whole peach.  It was no big deal, I was prepared for that happening.

As I began to eat the second peach I noticed that Q was staring at me, well actually she was staring at me eating the peach so I decided to put it to her lips so she could have a taste.  She proceeded to suck on it, I assume she was getting some of the juice from the peach.  After several seconds I took it back and began eating again and Q began staring again so I put it to her mouth again.  She again began to suck on it but then she just reached up and pulled it completely out of my hand - she was gumming my peach and would not let me have it back.  She sat in her chair for another half an hour eating my peach and would not give it back to me until she was done.  And at that point there was nothing left for mommy.

When I posted this photo on Facebook a friend pointed out that it looks like she's prepared to punch me if I tried to take the peach.  I hadn't noticed it previously but she might be on to something there.  Not sure if she would have punched me but she definitely would have thrown quite the fit.

10 Months

It's hard to believe that in 2 more months Q will be turning 1!!!  She is truly such a joy to be around and we are constantly getting comments on how mellow and easy going she is.  She is so loving and playful, it's hard to find her without a smile on her face.

Over the past month she has began to move so much more, I dare say that there's no safe place on the floor anymore.  If she wants it she will find some way to work her self over to it!  She rolls all over the place, she can sit herself up and she's just beginning to attempt to pull herself up from sitting.  I'm sure she'll have to work on it more but she's made so much progress over the past few weeks.

She's at the point where she mimics things, especially hand movements!  She will wave to herself in the mirror and to almost anyone else she sees waving.  Just this week I decided to add clapping to the list of hand gestures and sure enough this morning when I was picking her up to take her to her high chair, I clapped and she started doing it to.  I've now moved on to blowing kisses, hopefully she'll be mimicking that in no time too!

She still loves to play peek-a-boo with herself or anyone else.  When people smile at her or speak to her she likes to bury her head in my shoulder (assuming I'm holding her) and then she'll peek at them, wait for them to smile or speak again, and then bury her head again.  She gets very excited when B comes home from work and still gets upset if either of us walk into and out of a room without acknowledging her. 

We have attempted to add some table food to her diet by grinding it up with a mini prep processor and then adding it to her baby food.  She immediately noticed the difference and wasn't having it, after a few bites she refused to open her mouth again until I made her more baby food without adding our table food in with it.  I'm not sure if it has to do with her not having any teeth yet but so far she's not willing to eat table food.  She will eat crackers and bread so long as she can suck on them to make them soft and more easily edible.  I'm not too concerned, I know she'll get there when she's ready so for now I just stick to making my homemade baby food a bit thicker and chunkier.