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My LO is 9 months old now! I'm still ignoring the fact that I will have to go back to work in Jan. I think I will live in denial until I walk through the doors on my first day.... whenever that is...

LO is climbing up on everything now. She stands up all of the time now, and grabs things off of the tables and tv tables constantly. I know this, and yet there is still a ton of stuff that we leave on the table waiting for her to dump on the floor... Today she climbed on top of the laundry basket (after she turned it over and dumped all of the clean laundry out of it). She climbed over it and did a face plant while trying to climb off of it. A pair of jeans she dumped out of it earlier broke her fall so she didn't even flinch. Mommy sure jumped though!

She is cruising more and more. She grabbed onto a tv table and fell, dumping it over.... so no more tv tables.... haha.

We've had a busy week. The weekend before last was thanksgiving. We went over to my grandma's place for dinner with the family. LO was a little cranky, but she had been sick the week before so I didn't think anything of it. However, while we were over for thanksgiving, LO was chewing on my finger and something in her mouth pinched me! She had a tiny corner of her first tooth coming in! Its her front, bottom right tooth. Now, over a week later, it has broke through the skin, but still not close to being fully in.

We went to play group on wed and because she had been cranky the week before, one of the leaders said hi to LO, and then said "Did she bring her attitude with her?" ????? I couldn't believe it. The only thing I could say back was "Yes, she brings that everywhere with her." I wish I could say something else like "Oh I see you've brought yours."

This weekend we were invited to a combined birthday party. LO first party! It was a pretty good time! There were babies and toys everywhere! I felt a little bad though, because they said no presents because they were going to have a donation box there and we could donate to their favorite charity. So we did not bring a gift, even though I thought to myself, who does not bring a gift... but the invite said no gift, so we didn't bring a gift. Yeah, well, we were one of the few who DIDN'T bring a gift, and we couldn't find the donation box. Oh yeah. We felt pretty darn stupid... and still do.... :S They even had a treasure chest for the guests to pick a gift out of! At one point, we thought this was the donation box and thought crap, we only brought $... Oh man...

After that we went to another family dinner at my gramma's house, because she got out of the hospital on friday (FINALLY!) She had been in since April, so it was pretty exciting. She was pretty excited too haha. She kept talking about how well she slept because no nurses were going in all hours of the night to wake her.

Well, LO is having a rough night already. We can't complain though, she hasn't been up in the middle of the night for a while. And even now, its only 11:30pm. But its unusual for her. Stupid cat went into her room and knocked the dehumidifier off. When I went into scoot the cat out, LO Woke up and I tried to get out before she could see me, but no such luck.... WAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH :( I tried to let her cry, but it didn't work, so I went in and rubbed her back for a bit. She stopped crying but wouldn't sleep. So I picked her up. Yeah I know, no good can come of that. haha But at least I'm not as soft as her dad, who was ready to run in when she first cried.... haha. She was wide awake. Smiling at me, etc. She is SO wide awake. Well, there's nothing I can do there. I can't hold her till she falls asleep (although I would LOVE to!) So I put her back down and walked out. She cried for a few min, then stopped. Then started again, then stopped. She is still squawking a bit here and there, but if I go in, I'm done for! Poor thing.

She is in the temper-tantrum stage now. I know. I can almost hear your collective chuckles and "You think that's a STAGE?!" I have to admit though, I didn't think the temper-tantrums would start this early. Man oh Man LO has a mind of her own already. If I take something away from her or tell her no, she will fall down in a heap and cry!!! Its crazy! Speaking of crazy, I misplaced the liners for her bottles sometime after lunch. So when suppertime came, I couldn't find them anywhere. I looked for about 20min and finally gave up. I made her formula in a glass bottle and gave it to her. Um, fail. Big time. It wasn't in her plastic bottle so she wouldn't drink it! Nor will she drink anything cold, refuses to eat any different textures, and won't drink juice, even if its watered down.

Well, looks like I'm done for.... She keeps screaming, and then stopping, and screaming again, and stopping.

Ok so I went in and held her. We sat in the rocker (But I refuse to rock!) and she stopped crying right away, but was wide awake. So I sat there and held her while she turned this way and that, and tried to catch a glimpse of what dada was watching on tv.... finally she started to act tired (Thumb in mouth, closing her eyes, covering her face with her blanket). So I put her down and rubbed her back till I thought she wouldn't notice if I left.... So far so good... although she did just kick the wall.... and there it is. A tiny cry. But these ones she usually can put herself to sleep again no problem. I think we're good, but we'll see! Wish me luck!