Hair Happenings

So I stole my title from Jana's family blog, but it's ok! Anyways, my promised update never arrived, and I apologize for that. I'm still attempting to write a horrible novel (well, a good one, but so far it's not great), so I feel like I've been writing a lot lately even though I haven't been blogging. Sorry! Also, it's surprisingly hard to type with an 8 month old trying to kick the desk, bang on the keyboard, and eat the mouse. Yes, all at the same time. I've put her down now and she wiggled over to my sewing ruler thing and is now examining that. Anyways, this past two weeks, Chaela has learned several new tricks. They include:

Army Crawling like a pro (she looks like a fish swimming on carpet)

Turning on Will's PS3

Ejecting the disc from Will's PS3

Turing on the stereo and ejecting the CDs

Turning up the volume on the stereo and crying when it turns on

Pressing buttons on the TV remote

Turning the pages in her board books

Various language skills

So as you can see it's been a busy two weeks! She's also MUCH more stable when she walks (while holding our hands), for those of you who saw her recently. She barely wobbles at all now! Oh, her language skills include a more thorough understanding of "No!," a little bit more of the /k/ and /p/ sounds (that's how we write them in Linguistics), and I SWEAR she says "mamamamama" more when I'm with her and "dadadadada" more when Will is home. That's most likely just my motherly pride, however.

This is what happens when she army crawls right into her diaper bag. Backpacking baby!

Oh, and I had to baby-proof the house recently, thanks to Chaela's new found ability to get around surprisingly quickly and stealthily. Well, it would be if she didn't yell so much. Anyways, I've started with the electrical sockets and when she gets to walking and things I'll do the cabinets, drawers, and doorknobs. We've also had to break out the playpen when we need to do something and can't keep a constant eye on her. Like anything. But I do try and keep her out of it 90% of the time so she can practice moving around. It's just hard chasing her to Will's PS3 over, and over, and over...

Her first time in the playpen was a bit melodramatic, as you can see. "Ahhh! I'm in prison! But I'm innocent!!"

Outside of Chaela, not much is happening. Mostly we're just trying to get by. There are a ton of other people in our lives that are way more exciting than us right now. We know three people who are getting married in the next few months (all family, actually) and three people who are having babies within the next year. Plus I have two friends who just got a great jobs and a friend who recently had her first baby. Congrats to you all!

This is for Jordan. You will notice the yellow "drum" and the two "sticks" in her hands. Yes, she was banging on it (Linds or mom, make sure he sees this!)

Well, that's all I have for now unless something exciting happens. Pioneer day is this week, so I have Thursday off. That's the best thing happening to me right now!