Learning New Tricks

Kadee is growing much too fast! My little baby has gotten so big! She is just starting to explore things around her though and it has been fun. On Monday she went to visit my choir classes with me. She got a little grumpy because she was so tired, but she wouldn't go to sleep because there was just so much going on. She slept a little bit...just enough to keep her from getting too grumpy. My students loved seeing her and it was fun to show her off.

The last few days Kadee has become more chattery. She was making all kinds of adorable sounds while I was in the shower yesterday, just talking away. I stick her in her rock&play and bring her into the bathroom with me because she likes to hear the water running and the sound of the fan. In the past it just puts her to sleep. But not this time. She was completely content to sit there just observing things and talking about it. Kadee is such a good baby, I just can't believe how blessed we are.

Sitting contently in her swing has been new too. We tried it a while ago...and she didn't like it. I think it was because she couldn't really see much around her - like the mobile hanging above the swing - and she probably felt too isolated. Now her eyesight has developed a little more and she has been very interested in watching the mobile and she knows that I'm still there too. (Shoes in the picture were made by Kadee's Grandma Bertoch.)

Kadee will also sit very contently while we read books to her. She will follow the picture books with her eyes pretty well. I think she just watches us turn pages and sees a little of the color. Sometimes she will make talking noises while I'm reading to her. She's starting to interact with us more.

Her other new thing is that she is figuring out how to soothe herself. Only she does this by trying to eat her entire fist. Sometimes she gets mad when the whole thing won't fit in her mouth. Or she will try to eat both at the same time... Or she can't find her mouth with her fist - usually because she is moving both of them around too much to have them come in contact with each other.