Crawling Baby Commotion

Life since Chloe has become mobile has been a bit... busier. For starters, the carpet gets vacuumed everyday because even if there's nothing to be found, Chloe will find something. She's always trying to pull up on something and constantly bumping her head on something (or at least it feels that way). She has yet to have a bruise though, so that's good. I thought she would wake up with one right smack dab in the middle of her forehead this morning, but she didn't. I think she's really starting to test her boundaries too, which gives us that many more opportunities to learn the word "no". We've been trying to teach her the meaning of that word and that when mommy and daddy say it, it's not an option or a difference of opinion. *sigh* It's a working progress...

On the Move!

I would like to start off by announcing that last night Chloe sat up on her own. She was laying on her belly and then just twisted right around to a sitting position! She's been pretty close for awhile, but she actually did it last night! It was so fast, and I was watching her play, but thinking about something else (probably how happy I was I vacuumed earlier that day as I was staring at the carpet) so not completely paying attention and I almost missed it! I was so excited for her, and she absolutely loved all the praise she got from Kris and I!

Second of all...
On this day, January 13, 2010, Chloe Marie Savage began CRAWLING!!! I was watching her play from the couch and she started trying to make some motions with her arms while on her knees and I just got this feeling like I should get my camera and record her. It was a good thing I did because I was able to capture some of her first movements! It was so awesome to see her start to figure it out. She's still hasn't completely figured out that she could really get movin' that way, but I'm sure that will come with more practice.
After a few minutes of celebrating I was engulfed in a wave of pure panic over how our little duplex is not very crawling-baby friendly. I spent the next hour or so rearranging things in a mad rush like Chloe was crawling around destroying things already, when in all actuality she hadn't moved an inch... I have no idea why I was acting that way, but I did get in done pretty quickly and it wasn't complete chaos. So that's a plus.


Videos take too long to post on here, so it's on facebook.

Banana Breakfast take 2

We tried bananas for breakfast again, and Chloe did much better! She ate about a 1/3 of it. At first she was having a hard time picking it up off the tray because I cut the pieces small. I mean she only has 2 teeth and I didn't want her choking on it... Anyway, but toward the end she figured out, like the super smart baby she is, that if she pulled the pieces toward the edge of the try, the little ridge it has could help get it up into her hands! She did great! It was funny though, because occasionally she would get to babbling and a piece would slip right through her gums and out her mouth! hahaha