Leap Day

It's Leap Day so I decided that rather than busting my hump for the man, I'd enjoy the extra day this year by not working!  This has also freed me up to work on the blog - something we've been too busy to do for the past few weeks!!  Here's the update.

Amita has been growing and changing like crazy.  She is starting to talk a lot more - babbling to herself mostly - but I think that her words are going to follow really soon.  She has started to say uh-oh a lot.  Very funny!  She is also able to stand/balance much better and she has started crawling on her hands and knees instead of dragging on her belly.  But she can still go fastest on her belly, so she does that when she's excited or in a hurry.  We keep waiting for the arrival of her molars... they have yet to pop through!  So we're back in the throes of teething this week after getting a short reprieve last week.  And now, some pictures of what we've been up to.

Mama and Amita reading together.

Amita winning the messy eating award!

Making a funny face with her bottom teeth.

A few smiles through her teeth pain.

Heading toward her favorite thing - the tv stand.  She's not supposed to touch it... so it's usually the first thing she heads for!

Amita crawling regular style.

Using her drum sticks to break out of the baby gate!

But now the camera is much more interesting!!

Saying, "uh-oh"!!

Having fun on her music table.

Happy Days

Amita has been sick and teething, but even with all she's going through, she's been in great spirits.  Her smiles and laughter warm our hearts and it's been amazing to see all the changes she has gone through in the past week.

Amita has learned how to go from laying on her tummy to sitting up.  She has also started crawling on her hands and knees and using that extra height to pull herself up to standing.  And my personal favorite: she has learned how to blow kisses!  I got home from work on Wednesday night and the first thing she did when she saw me was blow me some kisses - adorable!!!

Here are just a few pics of our happy little camper.

Playing games in her high chair and giggling like a crazy person!

Amita is part of the internet sensation, planking!!

On her day home sick with Daddy - even then, she had some smiles for him.

It was hard to find a serious picture of our little comedian this past week.  Every other picture that I took here had her cackling!

Blowing kisses... MWAH!!!

Lord of the Rings

Although you wouldn't know it from these pictures, Amita has been sick off and on for the past month, so today we took a trip to see the doctor.  She has bronchitis and possibly pneumonia, but either way, she's on anti-biotics to help clear it up.  We get to go back in 2 weeks to confirm that everything sounds ok and make sure there's no other signs of the pneumonia.  The good news from our doctor visit: she is healthy and continues to gain weight, up almost a pound since last month.  My arms can definitely tell a difference... and she's stretching out some of her clothes in new directions too!!

Here's Amita helping unpack a box that was delivered to our door.  She eventually tipped this one over... good thing there was no damage (to her or anything else!).

Looking surprised that I caught her playing one of her new favorite games.  She likes to wear this "jewelry" while she holds other toys in her hands and crawls around!