Kelsi's growing up

This is Kelsi's latest favorite activity! What baby wouldn't love dumping those bright colorful tiny rubber bands out of the noisy plastic bag! She crawls as fast as she can for the bag whenever she sees it on the ground. Then she shakes it as hard as she can, if she is lucky we forget to zip it shut and they fly EVERYWHERE!!! Then we all get to clean them up as fast as we can before she eats them. 

 Her other favorite thing to do is stand up. She started doing this last week. I was reading Alissa a book on the ground and she was standing next to me holding onto my shoulder. Then she let go of me and just stood there without realizing it. As soon as she realized it she started holding on again. Now when we sit on the floor in front of her and help her stand up she will let go of our hands and just laugh and laugh. She thinks it is so funny when she is standing all by herself. It took her a while to figure out how to get from standing to sitting again. She would stand up in her crib, or holding onto the furniture, then just scream until someone rescued her. She had been sleeping really well. We lay her down awake and she falls asleep, or maybe cries for a minute or 2 and goes to sleep. One day I layed her down and she was quiet for a little while, then started screaming. I let her scream for a while, then went up there. She was standing holding onto the rail and couldn't "get down."It was kind of funny, I felt bad for her though. She was really upset about being "stuck."She is doing SOOO much better with sleeping. We let her cry it out for a few nights. I would feed her, then if she started crying within the next 2 hours she would just cry. We turned on some white noise so we couldn't hear her. It was sad and hard for me, but we all sleep so much better now and are so much happier. She will sleep for 3-6 hour stretches at night. Usually she will go to bed between 7:30 and 9:00. She wakes up around 10 and eats, then goes back to sleep and eats one or 2 more times during the night then wakes up for the day around 7 or 8. During the day she usually takes 3 naps. She had a rough couple months being sick and clingy and teething and whatever else was going on, but now she is back to her happy self and we love it!!!

A couple weeks ago my goal for the day was to get Kelsi's Visa stuff done. I had to get her pictures taken, so we went to the BX and had them taken. While we were waiting for them to get printed we went to see if there were any dresses for Remi. While I was holding Kelsi she got a metal hanger and put it her her mouth. I didn't realize it was in hermouth an dshe tried to take it out. It got cought on her lip and she jerked it. She started to cry and blood started pouring out of her mouth. We got to the tile floor and I sat down with her so it wouldn't drip all over us and the carpet. I had so much stuff in my hands I couldn't get out the baby wipes from my purse. A nice lady walking by rushed over and helped us. Then a store worker came over and helped. It was so sad to see so much blood coming out of her mouth. She stopped crying pretty fast and stopped bleeding too. I thought maybe I should take her in to Blake, but figured there wasn't anything he could do. We picked up her pictures and went to submit the visa application, then headed to Blake's work. I tried not to make a huge deal of it, because I figured I was just a worrying mom, not a dentist. He looked at it and said it was really bad. He would have stitched it if she was older, but there was no way to get her to hold still, so it would just have to heal itself. It is pretty much healed, she does have a big growth in her mouth from it, but at least it doesn't look like a tooth growing out of her lip into her mouth anymore. It hasn't bothered her at all since the first day. It is more like a toy for her. She is constantly playing with the bump, either with her tongue out, or she has her mouth closed and it looks like she is chewing on something. I am constantly checking to see what she has in her mouth and it is never anything. She just plays with the growth!

 

 We are starting to clean out and sell things to get ready for the move. I figured I might as well sell our fireplace decoration, so I decorated it to get good pictures. I will miss it!