Rosie and I went to a Messy Party today - with moms and kids from one of our playgroups. The kids seemed to have a really great time getting messy…
It was a birthday party for Lily, and she REALLY enjoyed getting messy
Along with the painting - there was a station set up to play with flour
And a big pool full of mud
Rosie really loved being dirty - but took some time out to munch on some watermelon
And she loved playing on the swings - her favorite!
I can’t believe my little girl is almost a year old! Rosie is getting so big, she stands on her own now for a few seconds every time I set her down.
She has great balance standing on her own - until she realizes that she is standing by herself and then she seems to get nervous and quickly bends her knees and crawls away…
She loves to walk around the house, holding on and pushing things like her toy schoolbus, or a box, or a chair. She also loves to climb - especially the stairs - if we forget to close the baby gate at the bottom of the stairs - she makes a bee-line over there and is halfway up the stairs before we can catch her. She has gotten clever too, and now when the gate is closed, she tries to climb the side of the stairs.
She is getting so fun and loves to play - her favorite is peek-a-boo, she will use my skirt or shirt or the blankets or sheets on the bed and crack up as she raises and lowers the fabric over her head. She also loves to play chase and hide with her daddy… Joe will crawl around a corner and hide and Rosie will crawl after him and when she finds him he will roar and crawl after her and she will crawl away squealing and laughing - and then they will repeat until they both get tired- it is so cute….She is definitely a daddy’s girl…
She also likes to try to feed us now, or put anything she is playing with or chewing on in our mouths - Joe and Rosie were playing with the bottle of teething tablets like this the other day…
Kind of funny that the bottle of teething tablets is acting as a teething toy - rather than what is inside…
Yesterday was Father’s day - and unfortunately Joe had a show and had to work - but we went and hung out with him anyway - Rosie with her headphones on - and lots of kids at the show were so amused by her - there were tons of people who commented on how cute she was and several people took her picture as well. We celebrated Father’s day a weekend early with a trip to Toronto, where Joe saw his favorite band Television and a few other bands in concert and I gave him an early Father’s day present - the Ergo carrier (kind of a present for me as well:-)
It is a super comfy carrier that will be excellent when we go to Europe in 2 weeks. I also love carrying Rosie in my Maya wrap
That photo is from the same weekend as Toronto, but on Sunday when we got home, it was Ari’s first birthday party. Rosie had a great time hanging out with her cousins - here is a photo of her and Marisa, and her playing soccer (kind of) with the birthday boy, Ari.
Other things of note for her 11th month:
She still makes her trilling sound with her tongue - and she loves to blow raspberries on mommy’s belly and she clicks her tongue too and makes a fake cough sound that she thinks is hilarious - she really tries to imitate anything we say or do.
She loves books and loves to read - she sometimes likes to pretend that she is reading
She is eating a wider variety of foods - we have just been feeding her little bits off our plates - though is still about 90% breastfed - some new foods that she seems to like:
Black beans, brown rice, mango, strawberries, graham cracker, broccoli, squash, carrots, egg, turkey, chicken, cheese, mashed potato, and she loves baba ganoush and she still loves her yobaby yogurt and her gerber fruit and veggie puffs (staples of her diet). The only thing that she doesn’t really seem to like so far is applesauce. She doesn’t do the sign for “more” that I have been showing her - but when we are eating yogurt and she wants more, she hands me back the spoon and makes “unn unh” grunting sounds. She also sounds like she is trying to say “yummy” whenever I feed her something - probably because that is what I always say when I offer her food.
She sleeps pretty good in her crib at night now- asleep by about 8:30-9pm (unless we are out late for some reason) and up at 6:30 when she gets to come in bed with us and nurse and go back to sleep until about 8am - but she still doesn’t like to nap in her crib
though she naps no problem when driving in the car or when lying down with mommy or daddy.
She seems like she is starting to understand more words, she knows what her ball is if I say “get your ball” she grabs it - and she loves playing “where’s mommy’s nose” - she points to my nose and says “nay” and cracks up! Though she also points to my mouth and says “nay” so I am not sure how much she really understands…
I still cry sometimes when I look at her - I can’t believe she came out of me - I love her so much!
So, for my birthday, I asked my mom for a travel stroller for when we take Rosie to Europe in a couple weeks. If 17 year old me would have known that 32 year old me would be asking for a baby stroller for a birthday present, I would think I was SOOO lame. Regardless, I am very excited for my stroller - it should be here in the next couple of days check it out here
Here is a photo of me and Rosie on my B-day - see how excited she is about her new stroller?
Since we have been transitioning Rosie to her crib (instead of sleeping in our bed) it has been harder to get her to sleep - especially for me. She will no longer just nurse to sleep, it has taken lots of bouncing and rocking and she just wants to keep nursing and won’t ever drift off. Not so for daddy, he can get her to sleep in 5 min! For some reason, he has the magic touch - so I have been more than happy to relinquish the nighttime duties to him…Usually I change her into her pj’s and nurse her and read to her and pull down the shades and start the bedtime music and wait till daddy comes in and he rocks her for a few minutes and she is out…
The cutest thing is when he is rocking her to sleep and he puts himself to sleep too…
Rosie had her first major injury this past weekend - our normally gentle (yet hyper) dog, Georgia BIT ROSIE IN THE FACE!
It was a very scary moment. Joe turned around just in time to see the bite happen, but we have no idea what led up to it. We know Georgia had been growling at her when Rosie tried to eat her food - but other than that, she had never shown any aggression toward her or anyone else…
Rosie got it pretty bad right around the eye - she had a bite mark in her right eyebrow, and another one in the corner of her right eye (from Georgia’s bottom teeth)- and some deep scratches down her scalp (from the top teeth)
I was surprisingly calm throughout the whole trauma, I guess my mothering instincts just took over and I just acted without even thinking. Once the bite happened and Rosie started crying, Joe dragged Georgia outside and I quickly picked up Rosie - who had blood running down her face, and I grabbed a paper towel, wet it in the kitchen sink, and wiped away the blood to see where she was hurt - I saw both cuts by the eye and thought that the one on her eyebrow maybe needed a stitch - and we decided to go to the emergency room. Rosie was still crying and I started to nurse her and she immediately calmed down. I sat in the back seat and nursed her all the way to the hospital (only about 5 miles) and even walked in the emergency room with her still latched on…
Rosie was amazingly calm while the Dr. and Nurses examined her and made sure there was no injury to her eye - and they decided the cut was not deep enough to warrant a stitch - it would be more traumatic to put a stitch in than to just leave it alone and they said it would heal fine… After the initial injury - Rosie was pretty much back to normal, we went to Pauline’s for dinner to celebrate Ari’s 1st birthday and Rosie was still playing and active and kept trying to steal Ari’s pacifier like she likes to do…
We took her to an eye doctor to follow up and just be sure her eye was ok - and he said she looked fine…
Today is day 4 of the injury and the scab on her eyebrow just fell off and you can barely tell she ever got hurt…
I hope that is the only trip we ever have to take to the emergency room with her…
Now the dilemma is what to do with Georgia? We love this dog and Joe has had her since she was a puppy - for 6 years now. She has never acted like this before, but how do we trust her now around Rosie? We are going to talk to our vet, and to a dog trainer and get some opinions, but I think Georgia might be going to live on a farm in Indiana (and no, that is not a euphemism for putting her to sleep - Joe’s friend Zack actually lives on a farm and he said he might take her - that way Joe could still have visitation rights… We will see, it will be a tough decision either way…
Rosie had her first concert experiences in the past few weeks. I guess going to concerts as babies runs in my family as my mom took me to see Pink Floyd in Austin, TX when I was only 2 months old…maybe that’s why I gravitated toward my job in the record industry…
Our good friends in the band Gomez came to town and we took Rosie to see their soundcheck - and then the guys came over to our house for a BBQ afterwards. It was fun to see the guys again and I remembered how much I LOVE that British accent! I am now considering sending Rosie overseas to boarding school, just so she can come home with that accent - or she could just pull a Madonna, or Gwynneth and copy the accent anyway…
Here is a group photo of us and Gomez…
Then, Rosie’s first real concert experience came with the Pearl Jam/My Morning Jacket show. Joe has worked with Carl, now the guitarist in MMJ and has had a long relationship with Matt, now the drummer in PJ - so we went backstage to catch up with our friends before the show.
We were chatting with Matt in the dressing room, and Eddie Vedder came in and promptly got down on the floor to play with Rosie. It was really sweet, but Rosie was still dealing with some stranger anxiety so she started crying and crawled over to me. Matt joked with Eddie that he scared her - it was pretty funny…Hopefully PJ is still around and touring in 15 years and Rosie can feel really cool that she was hanging out backstage with Eddie Vedder and the PJ guys. We watched MMJ from the side of the stage during their set, and they were really good - but they put Rosie right to sleep
(with her baby headphones on to block out the sound). Then we stayed for only 3 songs in PJ’s set and Rosie started to get cranky and fussy - so I took her home and put her to bed while Joe stayed for a few more songs.
I hope Rosie grows up to enjoy music as much as Joe and I do - she already dances when she hears music and tries to sing along - it is so cute. I have a feeling we will be taking her to many more shows in the future…
I have been taking a ton of photos lately -
It amazes me how animated Rosie is every single day - she is so inquisitive, and she entertains herself exploring the house and cracks herself up - she is such a busy little girl - here are some photos that capture some of her many moods and expressions…
and her best interpretation of a cabbage patch doll…
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