Teething

So the Boss is working on getting her 2 front teeth together, so that makes me oh so happy. This video is of her gums. I took a video b/c I'm really sure I won't be able to get a pic of those gums ready to erupt teeth

Great-aunt Nancy

This is the Boss and her great-aunt Nancy. Great-aunt Nancy is one of the reasons my daughter is so short

Important milestones

The Boss turned 1 yr old May 6, 2010. For her birthday, John and I gave her strawberry cake. She didn't like it too much, but since it was sugar, she ate it. Afterwards, as I was trying to put her to bed, I wondered why I thought it was a good idea giving a child a cupcake 30 minutes before her bedtime. Somehow it made more sense before I was chasing a naked, walking baby around her room trying to get a diaper and pjs on her.

For her birthday party.02 (yes, she had 2), we grilled out and had the grandparents over. Grandma Harmon feed the Boss bits of hamburger. John thought he should just skip the middle man and gave her her own. She gave eating it the old college try, but she just really gummed it and licked it. I think John ate it.

Here she is eating her 2nd birthday cake. She doesn't like getting her hands dirty (like me), but she'll sacrifice if it means eating chocolate. She ate so much that both sets of grandparents couldn't believe it. No one believes me when I tell them she's a bottomless pit. Just like no one expects the Spanish Inquisition.

The End of Our World

For those of you who have kids, you know you're super excited for this moment, but it's tinged w/ a little bit of sadness. Your baby is no longer a baby, she's a toddler and your world has just ended.

This is the Boss enjoying eggs for breakfast. She was enjoying herself until she realized that she was feeding herself and not Mama! That had to stop right there. She's also realized that green beans taste a lot yummier if they come off Mama's (and no one else's) plate. She has just one tooth, but she's making the most of it!

Christmas discovered!

I found this video while going thru my videos of the Boss. This is her first Christmas and her first intentional attempt @ unwrapping presents. Of course, she's the cutest baby in the world while doing it.

Here is a pic of John and the Boss. John is taking all of our tv series out of their boxes and dvd cases and putting them in a dvd book. We had to do this b/c the Boss has learned how to take dvds off of the shelf, which doesn't bother me. What bothers me/is dangerous is her eating the cardboard boxes surrounding the tv series. John took them out and threw them away so she wouldn't get choked on small bits of cardboard (oh, and if anyone is wondering, she's chewing on a Futurama season).

She is so cute!

Here is the Boss. I was taking an up close pic of her. The pinkish blob to the left of the pic is her thumb. She was trying to grab the camera. She is such a camera hound. Any pic of her, if she notices the camera, will have a smile in it. It's a good thing she's so cute. She's still crawling and pulling herself up. She's not getting the hang of standing just yet. She will let go of the couch, baby gate, pant legs or anything else she's holding onto, then throwing her head back and falling. Then it's my fault that she's hit her head. She's thankfully not hurt herself any worse than that.

Here is the world's youngest computer geek. She loves playing with laptops. We have an old clunker laptop that we put in the living room floor for her to play around w/. She does enjoy it, but she wants to play w/ the one that we're playing w/. We're working on saying No w/ her. We heat w/ natural gas heat and in our living room we have a very attractive heater. The Boss loves to touch it, but she's learning it's not in her best interest to touch it. John was tired of her not listening to him (15xs in 1 1/2 hrs) and put up her playpen for a "time out" spot for her. The Boss has learning the play pen is not the place to be. So long as she doesn't touch the heater, we don't care how she's learned that.