Lunch Time

Brinlee loves to feed herself lately.  It's great with crackers and fruit and things she can get to her mouth.  But whenever it gets to small to stick out of her fist she'll just open and close her hand and try to figure out how to get the food into her mouth.  So far her favorite thing to eat is apples.

Today for lunch we had some spaghetti which she loved, if you can't tell by how much is all over her. After she was done I let her chew on a graham cracker for a little bit while I ate and did some things on the computer.  That's when I learned how talented she is.  

Not only can she jump while she sleeps, but she can eat also! Just in time for Christmas feasts.

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CRAWLER!!!

Brinlee May is 7 Months 1 week and 4 days old.  

She's been trying to for a little while now, but last night she just turned around and went for it.  She was sitting playing with some toys and behind her was a little thing of kleenex.  I don't know what made it so appealing (since she hates having her nose wiped), but she turned around got on her hands and knees and took off! She's been like this all this morning.  She'll just be sitting and playing with a toy or book or something and then she'll see something else and just go for it.  I guess I better start getting everything off the floor.

A Growing Girl

Here's some updated information on Brinlee along with some pics!  (I'm going to put some time into this blogging thing one day and learn how to put several in the same square, or do a slide show, but until then sorry they are posted one by one.)

Brinlee on the way back to Idaho

 It's so hard to be strapped into a carseat for 12+ hours, so just a few times for a few minutes we would let her stand up and stretch.  She loved facing forward and seeing what was going on.  Brinlee wants a big girl car seat for Christmas! ( I love her blue eyes in this one)

Babysitting Elsie

Kendal brought over Elsie today while she had to do some things and we had so much fun!  Well, Brinlee and I did.  Elsie slept the whole time.  Brinlee sat like this for 10-15 minutes just waiting for Elsie to wake up.  Just as she'd get bored and look around Elsie would grunt or make some noise and Brinlee would sit a little longer.

Brinlee's Bed Head

 I don't know how a kid with hardly any hair can get bed head, but I was cracking up the other day when I went to get her out of bed and her hair was everywhere!

Brinlee had her 6 month check-up over the Thanksgiving break.  I know she's actually seven months, but here's her stats:  

Weight: 20 lbs.

Heights: 27 1/4 inches.

She's in the 90th percentile group in weight, height, and head circumference (although I never remember what it actually measures.)

The doctor asked about her foods and said since she looks to be doing really well, go ahead and be a little more adventurous with what we feed her.  Here's one of my attempts:

She has gotten her two bottom teeth in so she's using them to dig into the orange.  It took her a few minutes to realize that all the good stuff was in the middle so she started by just licking it for a few minutes which was hilarious.  Once she got the teeth thing figured out though, that orange was toast. I tried to get a good picture of the orange once she had finished but I couldn't get one to turn out.