I find myself saying this post after post after post, but I will say it again: I can't believe how much she is changing and how fast time is going! We got her a spot in daycare starting in Jan :( I think that is terrible, but the daycare is pretty good, and I think she will like it. I just think that a year old is too young for a child to be taken care of full time by someone other than family, well, really mommy, but that's just me!
We bought her Christmas dress on sat! Its the same one we saw weeks ago in a store in our town, but DH didn't like it. He said it looked like wrapping paper :( I loved it. But I wanted him to like it too, so we went looking for others. We went out of town and went to 6 stores, and then bought the one that I liked in the beginning, because DH said it grew on him and he liked it the best out of all of the ones we've seen LOL Even so, we bought a 6 month because she wears 6-9m clothes, some 9-12m, and a few 3-6m, but of course, the 6m dress we bought was too small, so back it went. Thank goodness the store at home had a 12m, which, is too big at the moment, of course! But she is growing a ton lately, so it might be ok.
We also looked around for a baby girl's first christmas ornament, but turns out we are late in the game for that!?!?! They were pretty much all sold out! We picked up some clothes for her, as well as a snow suit (which is way too big, but the next one down in size is way too small.) We got some good deals. One store we went to, we ended up getting $37 off, and another place we got 81.87 worth of stuff for $1.87 because of points we had built up! Awesome! :)
We went looking for a carseat for her (again). What a headache that is. Some are good from 5lbs, some 20, some 22, some are good up to 67lbs, others 80lbs, and still others 100lbs, some recline, some don't, side impact tested, or not....UGH! So we bought one, put it together, and found out that she is still too small for it. And after that, we learned there are new regulations that suggest you leave the child rear-facing for as long as possible. Rather than until 20-22lbs like we thought, its now suggested that you leave them RF until 30-40lbs! And we want it to recline well because LO still sleeps quite a bit in the car. So we took the other one back, and are pretty much at square one again! Ugh. Not fun! But I did find a good website that compares a few so that was pretty helpful. Not sure which one we will go for, I think we may just leave it for a few days!
As for LO, she is standing up on her own pretty well now. Today, I could've sworn she said "up" in her crib this am when I went to get her! She makes an "o" noise now, and she also blows like something is hot lol. She also makes the "fishy face". She started clapping last week. Every time she would stand up on her own, we'd clap, so then she started clapping her hands (not hard enough to make any noise) every time she stood on her own LOL. Yesterday she stared clapping and actually making noise. She likes to clap now hehe. She is eating so much more now too. Probably has doubled her solid food intake in the past 2 weeks.
If grampy or grammy take her hands, she will walk with them for a few steps, but will not for us. Last night at a family supper, she walked with them a lot more, and a lot better. Then DH tried it and she did walk with him!! And then with me too! Very fun! She still walks on her tip toes a lot, but is learning to put her feet flat.
Can't wait till Christmas! We still have to get her a stocking and a 1st christmas ornament. We will be taking her to santa pictures on the 12, but there are so many people supposed to be going, I'm not sure how it will turn out.
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