This evening was not a great one. Just before bedtime, Cordelia was crawling and landed on her face. Cue screaming. We managed to get her calmed down eventually and gave her her evening bottle. I put her to bed where she cried more than she has in the past week or so before becoming quiet. Not too long after that she woke screaming. I tried giving ( Read more... )

"Grandpas, Papas and Daddies can fix anything ( Read more... )

I was so proud of Valerie last night. We (Valerie and I) went to a farewell party for one of my coworkers at a Yacht Club on a nearby lake. She slept most of the way there (about 20 minutes) and never really fussed while we were there. She didn't like the small plants growing in the water (I didn't either), but otherwise she was great! We swam. We ( Read more... )

We went to Long Lake (by Alpena) for a week, arriving home yesterday. I think I spent more time preventing Cordelia from eating *too* much grass and sticks and leaves than doing anything else, but there were many other highlights for the week ( Read more... )

According to "What to Expect ( Read more... )

Valerie managed to wake Cordelia this evening, so now it is past their bedtimes (by a couple hours for Cordelia) and neither is asleep. Thankfully they aren't fussing, but that could change. Cordelia is alternating between chatting and being entertained by Valerie. We got Cordelia to bed late because dinner took a while to fix ( Read more... )

Cordelia impressed her carers on Tuesday (on Monday her main carer doesn't work and the other had to go home because her daughter was sick, so she had other carers) by getting up and properly crawling shortly after I set her down. She had really come a long way in her learning to crawl over the weekend ( Read more... )

Cordelia just pulled herself up onto her knees then got her feet under her. She didn't quite get her legs all the way straight, but came close.

Wow they grow fast

I was informed this morning that Cordelia was breaking land speed records. She does some proper crawling now, but moves however she must to get where she wants to go. She will move from the living room into the kitchen if that is where the rest of us are ( Read more... )

Cordelia has added several things to her list of foods. She has now had beef stroganof (her Grandma's recipe), peas, butternut squash, pizza crust. The beef I gave her in little tiny pieces. Valerie wants to feed Cordelia as well, but when I told her to find a small piece, the piece she picked out was 4X larger than what I had showed her. Today as ( Read more... )