Haven crawling

I love it!  I love watching her finally figure something out that she's been working on for a while!  She now knows that yelling and bobbing up and down do nothing, she is no closer to the toy she wanted than when she started.  But..... if she gets up on her hands and knees and pushes off a little, she can get it! :)  So now she does!!  She is still a little unsure of herself and will get mad if a toy is too far away because 'Come on, Mom, I can't go THAT far!', but if it's close enough now, she goes for it!  She makes her way across the room like this when she's determined.  But whenever I take out the camera, she stops.  It actually took me a while to find something that she wanted badly enough to make her crawl for it on video, haha.... toys, cells phones, remotes, ALL didn't work, she'd just roll her way over to something else! :)

Don't get me wrong, I'm still not ready for it.  I stayed up in bed last night with so much anxiety about how I'm going to keep all of Venily's little rings, toys, game pieces, hair clips, etc. out of Haven's reach when she has the whole house to roam.... Haven has an intense desire to put little things in her mouth (as did Venily) and I'm so scared she's going to choke on something!!  How am I going to fit more cleaning into my schedule?  Am I going to need to lock Venily's bedroom door during the day?  Where am I going to put Haven while I'm in the basement?  Should I just get rid of EVERYTHING small.... is that fair to Venily?  How do I watch a mobile baby AND a toddler at the beach in the summer?... LOL!  I know, I had so many anxieties while I was pregnant with Haven and NONE of them were ever even an issue, but it's in my nature to always worry!!  I think this is one of the times when there age difference is coming into play.  Venily is old enough to KNOW that Haven can't have certain things, but she doesn't quite understand WHY and she is likely to forget often.  Also, she is currently in a 'not-liking to clean up after herself' stage! 

We're getting somewhere!

Yesterday Haven showed marked improvement in the "moving in the forward direction" department.  I don't think I'd classify it as crawling though, lol, Jason called it "very unorthodox crawling," haha.  I'm curious to see if she continues to do it today, she's still sleeping right now!  She still really prefers to stand though.  And will often spit up (really the only time she does anymore) while trying to crawl.  Any time she's near me, she is constantly pulling up on me to stand, and is instantly so much happier.  We have our rummage sale today and it's been raining and is supposed to rain all day, so she may not get much of a chance to crawl around!


Oh, and another Haven thing I forgot to write about!  She is waking up EVERY SINGLE NIGHT lately!  It's driving me nuts!  I just nurse her and she falls right back to sleep, but it still makes me so much more tired in the mornings, she usually gets up around 1am and is back to sleep 15-20 minutes later, uhhhh!  I know I shouldn't get her in the habit of eating in the night, but I'm just WAY too tired to try anything else!  I hope it stops soon! (Usually just by writing it down, it miraculously changes, so that's what I'm hoping! :)  )

P.S.  If there is any way to freeze her in time at 7 months old, please tell me!  I'm not ready for 8 months!!!!

I feel like we are moving 100mph!

I wish it'd slow down!  Haven, Venily, the whole thing!  Growing up way too darn fast!

I asked Haven where Venily was today, she turned and pointed right at her.  We were reading books (Haven LOVES books right now) and I asked Haven where the kitty was and she pointed to the kitty and tried to say "kitty".  Later we were playing on the floor and I gave her a little toy duck and asked her where the duck was, she turned around and pointed across the room.  I didn't know what she was doing so I'm like "no, the duck is right here" and I showed it to her again.  She determinately kept pointing somewhere else.  When I followed her little finger with my eyes, I saw that she was in fact pointing to her FAVORITE duck, lol!

She also cruised along the entire side of the couch today by herself and is up to independently standing for a minute at a time, sometimes even longer if she's focused and not distracted!

And because this was too cute not to document somehow, Jason and I were sitting on the couch watching t.v. while Venily was sleeping and Haven was playing on the floor.  And Jason says "She's seriously the most beautiful baby I've ever seen."  And I smile and get teary-eyed because he catches me off guard when he says things like that and then he goes on to say "the other day I was looking at her and she was so beautiful, she didn't even look real.  I couldn't even believe she was actually our daughter.  She looks like a vampire baby or something.  She's just so perfect.  Just look at her...."  It's hard for me not to cry when he says things like that!  He's always going on and on about how beautiful and perfect and smart both the girls are!  There's nothing sexier than a guy who loves and adores his children!  ♥ I love it!  And then of course I try to steer his thoughts to 'hey, we have 2 beautiful, smart, perfect children, wouldn't you want to have another?'  Unfortunately it never works! :(  LOL!



I have some updates on Venily as well that I've been meaning to put up!  She now recognizes all her uppercase AND lowercase letters (though sometimes gets like "b and d" or "p and q" mixed up).  She knows a lot of the sounds they make and can draw a few of them.  She can count to 10 in Spanish and is always counting things in English AND Spanish! haha.  She is back on a baby-kick that had taken a break for a few months.  She got some new clothes for Baby Vecky so now that's her favorite baby!!  She is also back to CONSISTENTLY taking an afternoon nap every single day and has done so for a while now.  I feel so lucky, she was definitely trying to phase it out for a while there, but now she'll sometimes take up to a 3.5 hour nap!  However, we are still putting her to bed at 7:30pm but she won't actually fall asleep until closer to 8:30pm and is still waking up between 5:30am- 6:30am every single morning!  She continues to be shy at first and then super outgoing at the park.  The other day she was there and made friends with a 10 year old girl that she had doing all sorts of things with her!  She'd be like "Hey girl, come down the slide with me again!"  And they played together for a long time, it was so cute!!  She seems to really like older girls!  Hmmm... will have to do more updates later, little Haven-lilies is awake from her nap! :)

Videos

Here's one of her taking some steps.  I will probably have a better video within a couple of days.  I only have so much time to take videos, I have to have Venily sleeping and Haven awake, lol!



And here is one of her signing "eat"

Haven randoms

I noticed that when Haven points, her pointer fingers are all crooked just like her Aunt Lisa's!!  LOL!

We moved Haven into a big girl car seat this last week.  She loves it!!  We gave her Venily's carseat and we are now using Venily's spare car seat for her.  We are still on the lookout for a new carseat for either of the girls though!

I remember now when I actually WANTED Venily to start crawling and I have hit that point with Haven now.  She is getting very frustrated that she can't crawl and gets mad.  She can schooch or roll her way over to something after a while but knows there has to be an easier way so she gets frustrated and starts yelling about it!

However, she has been TAKING STEPS towards me while standing the last few days!!!  Before she'd take one and now she's up to about 3 steps toward me!  I have to get it on video!  She very well may walk before she crawls, haha!

Camping!

We went camping at Bong this weekend with the girls and the rest of our family.  It was a lot of fun!  Beautiful weather during the day so we were able to hike, bike, fish, and sit around the campfire and cook Veggie Dogs and S'mores!  We tried out our new huge tent for the first time and I LOVE it, it was like we had our own cabin, lol!  We fit a queen sized mattress, a toddler sized mattress, a pack and play, all our stuff and still had a huge area left over!  Venily had so much fun running all around, shes a good camper for sure, even drops her pants to pee in the grass without a second thought, haha!


Last night was COLD though so when we went to bed  (Venily was out within seconds since she didn't nap during the day) I was up for quite some time trying to figure out what I was going to do.  Jason forgot my sleeping bag, so all I had was a thin blanket that I had brought for Venily, in addition to a few other blankets I brought for her.  Jason told me 50 times that he'd run back and grab it, but I had Haven sleeping on my chest to keep her warm and she was fidgety and sniffly from a slight cold that she had woken up with, so I just decided to take her home for the night.  We got home around 11pm, and it was SOOO nice to be in our nice, warm beds, lol!  I grew up camping all the time in a big camper with my grandparents, so tent camping is not really so much my style! haha.  Someday we'll own a big camper....


 Haven and I woke up and returned back to our campsite in the morning for breakfast.  Jason said that Venily did AMAZING last night, I'm so proud of her!  The only major problem the whole time was that we found a TICK on Venily.  We had found a few throughout the day, but this one was actually latched on the back of her neck!  I honestly almost lost it!!!  It wasn't buried into her skin, but when Jason pulled it off, he actually had to pull it off!  Ahhhhh!  Luckily my MIL had read a sign up that said the different kinds of ticks and the only ones we'd have to really worry about are deer ticks and it wasn't a deer tick, in fact, they had never had a sighting of deer ticks at that park!!  Thank goodness!  Still... if Venily had had darker hair, we probably would never have seen it!  Gotta love Wisconsin!!


Jason has made up his mind that we are going to go camping every month for the rest of the summer/early fall and is already psyched up about camping next month!  I'm pretty sure he won't be picking anywhere that I can just drive home at night next time, so hopefully we get some warmer nights!  Or maybe I can convince him to let us borrow my grandparents' camper, which by the way has a separate bedroom, bathroom and the main area has 2 couches and a table that turn into beds AND one whole side move out to make it even bigger! :)  Now THAT is camping!


Update:  I just found a fricken tick in my ear!  I was feeling my ear and I felt something and I said to Jason "Oh F$#@!  There's a tick in my ear".  I just knew.  Sure enough, Jason pulled it off and it was!  I refused to look at it, but he looked it up online and it was for sure a wood tick.  He left a little bite mark on my ear as well!  DISGUSTING!!!!  How is it that I've been camping all my life and never had a tick before today?!   And Venily and I BOTH get one?!  Yuck, yuck, yuck!

Wouldn't You Know...

I wrote a couple of days ago that Haven doesn't point yet and then today she started pointing and has been pointing at people and things all day!! Probably because I've been making it a point to point at things more often now when telling her what they are!  Sometimes she has a little trouble holding the second finger down, lol, so it looks like she's giving "peace" signs and other times she has no problem! :)


Also I said she stopped saying "mama" and now she's been saying "mmmmm" a lot the last few days!  Hey, it's a start, I'll take it! :)  I also got her to say "teeth" this morning while she was playing with me teeth!  But then Daddy woke up and all she'd say is "Dada!  Dada! Dada!"  lol

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Also, today is my 26th birthday!  Which is cool because I'm not going to lie, I thought I was already 26 for quite a bit of last year, LOL!  Hey, I've got a lot going on, haha!  Jason is always asking me how old he is, so I'm not the only one!


I like to reflect on my birthday and make goals for the next year.  I have NOT done a thing with my New Year's resolutions, so I'll probably just re-evaluate them and actually try to follow through this time!


I am having an incredibly hard time with getting rid of the baby stuff.  My garage sale is next weekend and while I'm putting things together, I keep getting super-overwhelmed and have to leave it and go back to doing something else for a while.  It's really hard on me.  I hope I don't break down crying when someone tries to buy my things!  Hmmmm..... yeah, that's probably going to happen since I am getting emotional right now just thinking about it! :(  Jason is very cold and uncaring about the whole situation, which does not help matters out!  Seriously, I just want ONE more, that's it, is it really that bad?!


We are going camping this weekend!  It's rained ALL week and has been kind of cold, so I'm really hoping that it dries up and gets warm!!!  We went camping last year for my birthday as well (while 21 weeks prego) and though hiking was fun, the night was FREEZING!!!  Luckily it's not far at all from where we live so Haven and I can come home and sleep if necessary!  Oh my gosh, lol, I just looked at my post with pics from last year!  Venily was soooo little, haha!  And that HAIR!!  Oh so funny!

7.5 months

Haven is now 7 1/2 months old!!!  She's getting to be such a big girl!  What is she up to now?

Well, she has shown no real increase in crawling lately.  She has the crawl stance down and will move forward a couple of "steps" but then lays down on her stomach and gets mad if something is out of reach, lol!  She also likes to move forward by pushing her legs off of something behind her or grabbing onto something and pulling herself forward!  She'll get it sooner or later!  She much prefers standing though, she loves it!  She is up to about 30 seconds at a time, standing all by herself!  She pulls up on me to stand too.  She's got pretty good balance, but is oblivious to the danger of just letting go.  She tries to take steps towards me sometimes.  She walks when I hold her hands and loves to "walk" around after Venily as well! :)  I think that will be a big motivator when she's ready to walk, to chase after her big sister!  I am hoping we skip crawling and go right to walking, that would be nice!



She is teething really badly again!  She even bit her finger on Sunday and there was blood everywhere! :(  I wish I knew how to help.  She likes biting on toothbrushes and teething things, but that only works for so long.  I have to be careful because she'll just come up to me and bite my arms or legs now too and leave 2 little indents!  And she is still occasionally biting while nursing!  Her right bottom next to her other tooth is a little swollen, but I don't really see the teeth being all that close, so we might be in for a while of this! :(


She is a little dare-devil, thrill-seeker and LOVES to be put upside down and spun around and thrown up high in the air! :)  That's the Daddy in her!


Her favorite song right now is "If you're happy and you know it".  She gets really excited and starts clapping her hands (even when she's supposed to stomp her feet, or shout Hooray!) haha.  She claps her hands when she hears an audience on t.v. clapping as well! :)


She continues to say "Dada" a lot and hasn't said "Mama" in a while! :(  Venily did the same thing, it doesn't seem fair! She also LOVES to say "hi" and wave to anyone and everyone!  She is also still saying "ball" a lot and attempting to say other words too!


She has a new happy squeal now too!  Very cute!


She's been pulling my hair and scratching a lot more now too, especially when tired or nursing.  I have to cut her nails A LOT and file them as well or my whole chest and neck will have scratch marks all over it and it HURTS!!


She's been trying to pull up in her crib and whenever I go in there to get her, she has the bumper pulled down and is looking for me, haha!  She's been trying to pull up on other things as well.  So far she hasn't fallen or bumped her head... I remember I hated that when Venily was learning how to pull up on things/ stand/ walk! I know that is coming soon! :(  I need to get some pipe covers and duct tape to line around my tables b/c they are hard and metal!!


She is still obsessed with eating little things off the floor, EXACTLY how Venily was!  She can spot a crumb from across the room.  She also loves to eat pieces of my hair that are lying around, GROSS!  I have to vacuum almost every day, I'm so glad we don't have a dog or cat, haha!


Her newest favorite toys are BABY DOLLS!!!!  She LOVES, LOVES, LOVES them!!!  Especially the eyes (b/c they open and close)!  She is attempting to say "eye" as well.  She likes to give them kisses too!  I think I've passed my obsession with babies onto my kids, haha, I will be expecting a lot of grandchildren! :)

Oh!  And the spitting up is VERY minimal lately!  Like a few drops a day now!!!

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I was reading through Venily's posts from 7 months and she was starting to pull herself up on things right about now, saying "dada", "kitty", and "ball", pointing (which Haven doesn't do yet), a couple of days from now, she started crawling, eating mostly finger foods, and did all the same tricks Haven knows (clapping, waving and saying "hi", doing so big, etc.), but she wasn't standing independently yet or signing "eat" until about a month from now!

♥ Happy Mother's Day! ♥

Happy Mother's Day to all of the great mommies out there!!!!  I am so blessed to have spent this day with my 2 favorite people in this world!  This is my first official Mother's Day as a Mommy of 2 and I couldn't be happier!

So, how is life being a Mommy to 2 children at once?  Well, I LOVE it!  I really feel like this is what I was meant to do with my life!  I love my girls more than anything and it is not nearly as hard as I envisioned it was going to be!  How silly I was this time last year, so nervous about how I would handle it all!  I think the age difference between them couldn't be better, and their personalities complement each other perfectly.  Once Haven is mobile it will for sure get harder, but as of right now, it is pretty easy!  I try to imagine what it would be like to just have one of them!  

If I just had Venily, I know we'd do a lot more one-on-one things.  I probably would have more patience for her and she would probably get in trouble less.  However, I don't think it would be a whole lot easier than having both Venily and Haven.  If I just had Haven, I know it would for sure be easier!  She is very laid back and easy going as of right now!!  I would sleep-in in the mornings and wouldn't have to follow as strict of a schedule throughout the day as Venily needs right now.  But, I wouldn't change the dynamics of having two for anything!!!!   They entertain each other, crack each other up, and are each other's best friends!  I honestly didn't see that coming!  Haven is absolutely, hands-down, the best gift I've ever given Venily! :)  I love watching them together.  I love how Venily teaches Haven new things all of the time.  I love that they have each other in case anything were ever to happen to Jason and me.  I love how happy they make each other!  Who knows what it will be like years from now, but right now they have the best relationship ever!!!  ♥

And I do feel complete.  Like everything is exactly as it's supposed to be!  I have always done best under pressure, so the added responsibility of taking care of 2 children as opposed to 1 is actually better for me.  I have to utilize my time better and make each moment count more.  The amount of love I feel and receive has doubled for sure, but I do NOT feel like the work load has doubled at all!  Makes me seriously wonder how a third child would mix into our family!! ;)

I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE, LOVE my girls to death!!  And I LOVE being a Mommy- best job in the universe!!  I really hope every mother feels that way!  What an amazing experience to watch something you created grow and learn and change and love you in return!!!  Just amazing!

Jason left last night on one of his cross-country adventures and won't be back until tomorrow so we celebrated Mother's Day on Friday!  We went out to eat, rented a movie, and he and the girls got me a card, some flowers, and a GPS system for my car!  It's really nice.  I can't drive any where without getting lost, so it is going to be very useful!  I just type in the address and it shows me exactly where I need to go, tells me when to turn, etc. It's a very Jason thing to get me, lol! :)  Then today the girls and I hung out and had dinner with my Mom!

I hope everyone else had an amazing Mother's Day as well!  HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!

"Eat"

We went out to dinner last night and Haven was watching us eat and started signing "eat"!  Pretty exciting!  I've been slacking on all other signs though.  I find any that require two hands difficult to do every time I say the word, since I'm always holding something, usually her! :)

Dentist

Jason and I went to the dentist yesterday morning.  We both had appointments at the same time, but for some reason brought Haven and left Venily with my mom.  I don't know why, but I just can't bear to leave Haven.  I've only left her with Jason twice ever, and the longest of those two times was 3 hours!  She goes long periods of time between nursing so there is no reason why I couldn't leave her, but I just can't!

Haven was very good about 95% of the time!  She waved and smiled at every single person she saw, so everyone was cracking up at her!  There are a lot of things that Haven does that remind me so much of Venily, that is one of them! :)  I took Haven with me at first and she sat in her umbrella stroller playing with toys for a while.  Then she started crying and there wasn't much I could do since I was getting my teeth cleaned.  I knew she was tired.  Luckily Jason heard her from across the building and came in and took her.  I couldn't hear her, so I was really nervous the rest of the time, but the dentist assistant would go and check on her and report back to me every so often, lol.  I guess the dentist gave her a toothbrush and Jason said she spent the whole time with him happily brushing her teeth, haha!  When I finished getting my teeth cleaned and looked at by the dentist (NO CAVITIES even though I haven't gotten a cleaning in like 2 years!  Yay!), I took Haven back!

I spoke with the dental assistant about when I should have Venily in for her first cleaning.  She said around 3-4 years old so I'm going to attempt to bring her in around her 3rd birthday for a cleaning!  She knows about the dentist and what they do, so I'm hoping to keep talking to her about it for the next 6 months so she's not afraid, but I don't know!  Especially if it's a guy, she's going to be really shy!

DA-DA!!!

Haven has another new word!  She's liking d's right now!  She's been saying "dada" for a while now, but I can see now that she has definitely made the connection between the word and who it is referring to!  Jason woke up this morning and came into the living room where we were playing and I told her to "say hi to dada" like I always do and she got so excited, started waving to him and saying "Dada!  Dada!"  ♥

Jason also claims that when he got home from work last night at like 3am, she said "Mommy" clear as day and that when she first woke up this morning she said "where are the kitties", LOL, but I think he was probably sleep-deprived and delusional, haha!



I LOVE how she mimics the inflection I use the last time she says Dada!  ♥  She is so fricken cute!  She has been continuing to say "hi Dada" all day! :)

New word!

Haven said "duck" a bunch of times today while in the bath!  She's super obsessed with the water faucet-cover duck!!  I took a video of her saying it after she got out of the bath, but I'm not sure if you can really tell by the video! :)  I'll have to see if she continues to say it tomorrow!


Also, tomorrow is the 1 YEAR ANNIVERSARY of Haven's ultrasound!!  Seriously?!  I was that pregnant this time last year?!  I don't even remember it!  I've been pregnant for half of the last 3 years and I can hardly remember it at all, like I just dreamt the whole thing!  I want to be pregnant again BADLY!!  Jason has yet to budge whatsoever though, he's still set on adopting our third and demands I get rid of all of our baby stuff, so I am very sadly getting all the stuff together for a garage sale! :(  I can always get new stuff if he changes his mind, right? ;)


I remember how excited I was for Haven's ultrasound and how ABSOLUTELY sure I was that she was a girl!  I am so very happy that she indeed turned out to be one! :)  I love, love, LOVE my girls!!!!!  ♥

Standing

So, this is going to get really old, but I like to keep a record of it! :)


Haven stood for 15 seconds today all by herself in the middle of the room!  Yesterday it was 5, today 15.  I looked over at Jason while she was doing it and his mouth was wide open, haha!  I bet she could go even longer with shoes on!


Venily started walking as soon as she turned 10 months.  I predict Haven will be walking at 10 months as well... it's so fun to see her progress!  She's made some small progress towards crawling as well, moving herself forward while diving for things in her crawl stance! :)  Though I'm sure it'll be a few more weeks before I'm in any real danger.  I'm already making a list of all the safety things I need to do though and how I'm going to arrange my living room, what things need to be put away, etc!  Having 2 kids is going to be a whole new game, I'm kind of nervous...lol, so far I've been really lucky...

Girls' Doctor Appointments!

We took both girls in this morning to get checked out.  They both have little colds and Haven needed her ears checked again and I wanted the doctor to look at Venily's eczema rash on the back of her leg since regular lotion is not making it any better and it's starting to spread!

Haven's ears look great, yay!  Hoping we are done with ear infections now for a while!  Haven weighed in at 20lbs, 14oz! :)

Venily got a prescription for her eczema- Triamcinolone.  She's got to have it put on 2x a day for a week.  I hope that helps!  Venily weighed in at 29lbs, 6oz!  LOL, Venily better watch it, Haven is catching up quick!


Other news- Haven slept through the night again last night!  I am very happy!!  Hopefully now that she is better, she can go back to sleeping through the night all the time!  Also, she stood by herself in the middle of the floor several times yesterday without touching or holding on to anything or wearing shoes, for about 5 seconds each time!  Just wanting me to see a little of what's to come (whether I'm ready or not!)!! :)

Haven is 7 months! ♥

Oh my, 7 months!!!!

Here are her 7 month stats:

Weight: 20lbs, 14oz (4/27/10)


Length: 28.5 inches

(Venily was about 20lbs and 28in!)


Haven's updated growth charts:

(coming soon)


Clothes size: 12m & 18m (she is actually wearing a 2T shirt today, but there is NO way a 2 year old would fit in this shirt, it's even too short on her, lol...)

Diaper size: 3

Shoe size: 3

SLEEPING: She was still waking up at night since about Easter.  It was really bad for 2 weeks with her ear infection, she only wanted to sleep on me and then I'd move her to her crib and a short time later she'd wake up crying again! :(  So I fed her a lot in the night b/c I felt so bad.  There was a few nights when she slept through the night again, but then went back to waking up!  Then last night she slept really well again, hoping we are all done with night-wakings! :)


Usually takes 2 naps a day, sometimes 3. (1-3 hours each)

EATING: Still breastfeeding throughout the day.  Still eating 3 solid food meals and some snacks.  There was a week where she would eat like 3 jars of baby food a day again (I think she really likes that she gets to bite on the spoon with every bite, lol), but now she is back to getting mad and just wanting to do it herself!  She much prefers finger foods!  And has the pincher grasp down now!!  Her favorite things are cheerios, peas (without the shells), diced cooked carrots, and spaghetti!  But she will literally eat anything... still looking for something she doesn't like!  I've started giving her vitamins as well and, just like Venily, she LOVES Poli-vi-sol!  My kids are so weird, lol, just the smell of it makes me want to gag! :)

PLAYING: I rotated her toys recently and she is LOVING all of her "new" toys!!  I need to remember to do that every month!  She LOVES balls and babies and things that light up and/or make noise.  Loves to play outside and go for walks.  LOVES the bath!  I am so impressed at how well she continues to independent play!  She loves to jump in her ExcerSaucer.  Loves to play silly games with Mommy and Venily!

APPEARANCE: I think she looks as though she's thinning out a bit, though no worries, she still has lots of her cute baby chunk!!  Other than that, she looks the same except for her new teeth!

TEETH: 2!  Bottom middle!  Venily was almost 8 months before she got her first tooth!  I'm not sure if the next 2 are close to coming in or not, it looks like it's a little swollen.  She still wants to chew on stuff all the time, but we'll see!  She loves to bite on her spoon and my fingers.  She has bitten me a few times now while I tried to nurse her when she didn't want to!  Ouch!  But she hasn't drawn blood at all, so she is being nicer than Venily was! haha

Taken today! :)

SPEECH: tons of vowels and consonants.  Her favorite things to say are "ball", "mama", "puh", "ba-ba", "hi", as well as lots of other baby talk! :)  Ball may or may not be her first real world, I'm waiting to make sure before I count it! :)

I'm always impressed with all of the language she understands as well!  I can tell her to do things or say the name of an object or person and she knows what I'm talking about!  As much as I want her to stay little forever, I absolutely love watching her learn!




-signs: waves, claps, does "so big", gives high fives

MOVEMENT: Loves to roll and sit and stand holding onto things or up against things.  She can now also push herself up on all fours (and gets SUPER excited when she does!...though most of the time I do it for her) and she holds herself up for about 1-2 minutes!  She used to get mad when I'd put her up on all fours, but now absolutely loves it, she loves to rock back and forth while up there, but if she wants something in front of her she doesn't know how to move forward, she dives for it still! Daddy is trying to teach her how to crawl, I'm afraid that I'd have to predict that she'll be crawling in about a month!  Time for better baby-proofing! :)

OTHER:  She dances now whenever she's sitting and hears music she likes!!!  Sooo precious!  She rocks back and forth and really gets into it, lol!  It could not have possibly been any funnier the other day when both Haven and Venily were dancing in the living room to Ke$ha, oh my gosh, if only I had gotten it on video... cutest thing ever! (and fyi- look out world, Venily has some new dance moves as well to add to her awesome elbow moves, haha!  She really likes to move her hips now!)  I ♥ my kids! :)

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AT 7 MONTHS...

Haven's LIKES:
* Smiling! ♥

* Waking up in the morning!  Haven's smiling face is the best thing ever to wake up to!


*Finger foods

*Balls

* Showing me her "tricks"!

* Trying to suck on my hair, she gets obsessed with it when she's tired!


* Other babies and kids

*Anything and everything she's not supposed to have! :) Especially PAPERS!!!



Haven's DISLIKES:
* Being sick or in pain! :(


HAVEN/ VENILY COMPARISON: (Venily's 7 month Update)



Pics: Venily at 7 months!  Oh how my heart hurts looking at these pics!

June 11, 2008 (Venily is 7 months, 4 weeks, 1 day old)

I will put up Venily updates on Friday... Venily will be 8 MONTHS OLD!!! In the meantime, I put up lots of new pictures and here is a video of Venily and Kaitlyn "shakin' it"! LOL!

June 8, 2008 (Venily is 7 months, 3 weeks, 5 days old)



Yep, that's right!!! Venily's got her first tooth!! It's not much to see yet, but it is DEFINITELY there and VERY sharp!! :) Jason said he was sure that Landen would get a tooth before Venily, lol! It's going to be soooo funny to see Venily with teeth!

June 6, 2008 (Venily is 7 months, 3 weeks, 3 days old)

Venily has been pulling herself up on EVERYTHING this last week and is getting better and better at it!!! I'm a nervous wreck, lol! I can't just put things up on the table anymore to get it away from her because she'll schooch her way over there, pull up on the table and grab it! Yesterday she even pulled herself up on THE WALL! So far no major crashes or bumps but I'm not looking forward to when she finally does. We have to lower her crib too because every time I go in to get her from a nap, she's pulled up on it looking for me! I HATE having to throw a sleeping baby way down in there though!

Also Venily may have another new word! We bought her a ball yesterday and she's been saying it all morning whenever I give it to her! Last night it was so cute!!! She woke up and I brought her into bed between us and Jason woke up and I asked Venily where her Daddy was... she smiled, turned towards Jason and said "DADA" and pointed at him!!! :) I sure wish she would say Mama! She still says Dada when I try to get her to say Mama! :(

We are excited for Matt's birthday party tomorrow!!! Crossing our fingers it doesn't rain!!

June 2, 2008 (Venily is 7 months, 2 weeks, 6 days old)

Gosh Venily is just so darn cute!!! We just love the nice weather and playing outside!!

The last couple of days Venily will wake up in her crib and I'll look over and she'll be sittting up, pulling down the bumper pad, looking through the bars and smiling at me, it's SOOOOO funny, I LOVE HER soooo much!!!! And I love how happy she wakes up in the morning, it's a great way to start a day!

Venily has a new word! "Kkkka-kkkka" for kitty!!!! She just loves the kitty and goes crazy every time she sees her. She's been saying it for like a week, but I thought I was being delusional, but Daddy and Grandma Lauren confirmed it, lol! So now she says...Dada, Mama (rarely), hi, and kkkka-kkka!!! HAHA, I can't wait to have a real conversation with her!!!! :)