Walking a bit

On the phone

Starting to walk

Naddie decided to just stand up and walk to her dada yesterday. She was exactly 14 months and she took off. She stood up without any help (did not even put her hands down) and walked over (about 5-6 steps) to dada who was playing with her. She totally enjoys this newfound ability and keeps trying and trying.
She is a late walker but she is an early talker. She can go on and on about things. She also picked up this new habit that when she is really explaining something or trying to get your attention she will use her index finger (Will calls it her dictator finger) and make a very serious face and will just go off. Just like adults do!
She is also becoming very affectionate with some of her stuffed animals or her Baby doll. She hugs them and kisses them and pets them on the back.
I also found that she understands funny things without having to go out of our way to make faces or funny sounds. We took a picture of her and it turned out pretty funny. When I showed her the enlarged picture on the computer she started laughing. Only at that one though.
She is a very independent freethinking little girl. She is definitely exploring boundaries and how far she can go. Well, with daddy not too far. However with mommy she pushes as far as she can go.
I have to say this does not surprise me. It has happened with Puma and I knew it would eventually happen with Naddie as well.

Playing possum

This is soooo funny. Naddie plays possum (dead, but that just sounds too yuck) when you are about to get her. See the proof........

A little "science" here for you:

Possums are famous for "playing dead" when threatened, but this isn't quite accurate. They are not "playing" dead at all: the possum goes into shock when particularly stressed. While not dead, it can be found lying on its side with its legs extended and is, in fact, limp and unconscious during this time, like a person who has fainted.
While playing dead discourages predators from chasing the possum, it also makes them vulnerable. When drivers see the limp possum in the road, they don't bother to swerve, since they assume it's already dead. There are also accounts of people shooting the comatose possum in order to "put it out of its misery." There is such a thing as overplaying a part.

we've got a winner!!!!!!!

I just found a new tooth in Naddies mouth today! It is a molar tooth!

I can not believe it just sneaked in like that!

I was playing with her and had her head in my lap, when she started laughing hard and opened her mouth wide. That's when I realized something has changed in that little mouth.

So, now she has two teeth on the bottom, four on the top and one molar on the top left. I also think she actually has two more coming.

Take me out to the plyaground~~~~~~~~~~

Naddie loves the playground. If she could she would spend all her days out there going from one fun thing to the next. We also talked her gramps into joining us this past weekend. We sure showed him a good time.

Exploring the whole wide world and we will start in the kitchen

We were at Mother’s market the other day getting some fun grocery items for Naddie in the baby isle when two women directed their attention to Naddie as we passed them by. They were also shopping baby stuff but did not have their babies with them. Naddie as always smiled at them and waived at them and finally blew a kiss to each of them.
Of course they were uh-ah about it but one of them said something I think we all feel but might not admit to. She said: “Oh, I can not wait for mine to start doing things like that. She is only 7 months right now though.”
I had to reply to that with: “I know what you mean, but all this new and cute stuff comes with other new and sometimes frustrating things. Enjoy every stage she will go through!” And than we walked a way.
I used to feel that way. I don’t anymore. I learned that I have to enjoy the NOW because nobody can turn the time back when I realize that all that “other” time was just as wonderful and enjoyable. I already miss some stages we have passed. I do think they are equally wonderful and difficult at the same time. I think it’s all up to how you look at it and what you make of it.
Naddie is just becoming such an individual little being. She is studying everything around her. She is becoming very independent in many ways.
She will take the spoon or fork from me while eating (sometimes even feeds me), she tells me when she had enough of anything (she is really good of using her sign language skills), she likes to brush her teeth by herself, she will bring me her shoes to put them on or give her clean diaper to change and she loves to guide you to the kitchen cabinet to show you what she wants to snack on. And I could go on, but I am sure you get the picture.
Of course this brings some frustration, because she does not like if I don’t let her be as self-sufficient as she wants to be.