New Car Seat

Today Helen got a new car seat. I have finally gotten tired of the infant car seat/carrier. She is hard to get in and out of it plus it weights 500 pounds with her in it. Okay, so not really that much but it's heavy nonetheless. After quite a bit of research we went with the Safety 1rst Alpha Omega. Elite She can ride rear facing in it until 35 pounds which is good because the AAP recommends keeping them rear facing as long as possible. It can be front facing from 22-50 pounds but we're going to keep her rear facing as long as possible. And then it turns into a booster seat! She can use the booster seat for up to 100 pounds. We haven't actually put it in the car and used it yet but from what I've read about it I think we're going to love it.

BOOKS!

Helen loves books. She always has. She has books in every room of the house (except the kitchen) that she looks at all the time. She has recently enjoyed looking through the phone book. Today she spent about 10 minutes just flipping through it seeing what was in there. I had to take it away from her eventually though because she figured out the pages are easy to rip out. I really don't care if she rips them out but we are trying to teach her to be gentle with the pages so I had to take it away from her and give her one of her board books. Luckily she was just as happy with the replacement book.

Today we were reading her "Little Feet Like.." book. It is a touch and feel book. She doesn't use her feet though, she uses her hands. Today however when we got to the page about how little feet like warm sand (it has a square of sand paper to feel) she didn't use her hand to feel it, she decided to lick it. We read the book a few times, each time she would feel all of the things with her hand until we got to the sand paper and she would lick it.

Looking Good

This morning while I was making Helen's scrambled eggs (it's really not eggs it's more of an egg yolk), Carson volunteered to put Helen's clothes on her. I jumped at that offer and he took her out of her crib and put her on the changing table and realized he had forgotten to get her any clothes so I went in and grabbed a couple of things. When he brought her out I looked at her shirt and noticed it was on backwards. When I said something Carson said he thought it was strange there was no design on the front but he thought the buttons should go in the front so that's how he put it on.

"Whip In My Ear"

This picture has nothing to do with this post, but I thought it was cute:)

Today I whispered something at Carson. I'm not sure what it was but it wasn't anything important, sometimes I just whisper. Then Helen started talking in a very soft voice. I didn't think anything of it until later when it happened again. Then I realized that she didn't want to be left out and she was whispering too! Isn't she the cutest.



She went for her 9 month check up today and is doing great. Perfectly proportional Dr. Green said. She was even impressed that Helen had figured out how to go around me when I sit in front of her trying to distract her from getting something she shouldn't have. She is an excellent sleeper. Dr. Green also mentioned how very independent she sounds. I will admit that I am a proud mom. However, the appointment was not all that great. The nurse who was weighing her accidentally scratched Helen's foot and it was all down hill from there. Helen cried and cried. She would calm down and then someone would enter the room and she'd cry and cry all over again. She was also pretty tired. So, the scratch on top of being tired was all she could take.

Toast

Helen has recently developed a love for toast. She doesn't like it when I give her little pieces of it on her tray either, she wants a whole half a piece of toast to gnaw away at. She'll sit in her high chair for 30 minutes gnawing away at the toast. It's gotten to where she doesn't want veggies or fruit or meat, just toast (Gerber little crunchies and Puffs are also acceptable).

So Many Faces

Helen has started making a new face where she sucks in her top lip and sticks her bottom lip out. It's really rather humorous. Today I wanted to get a picture of her making the face. Unfortunately I did not get a good shot of that face but I got some pretty good ones if you ask me.

Let It Snow!

Monday morning I looked out the window and there were HUGE snowflakes falling from the sky. I had been promising Helen to take her out to see the snow and so I decided it was time. I bundled her up and took her out to the driveway and plopped her down. We were only outside for about 5 minutes but she loved watching the snow fall.