Saturday, August 23, 2008

Crawling, Eating, and All Sorts of Noises

What a fast 20 days it's been since the last post.  Avery's crawling is coming along nicely.  She still does the military-style belly crawl, but has gotten much faster.  Also, she doesn't use her face so much.  From the moment she realized she could crawl, she wanted down.  No holding, thank you very much.  She is strong and she is squirmy.  She wants to go go go!  When I lift her out of her crib, she immediately dives towards the floor.  The moment she hits the floor she is off.  Most of the time, I don't think she has a target in mind - she just wants to go!

The other huge news is that she is eating solids!  It started only yesterday, but since then, we've had three total eating sessions.  In each, she literally leans towards the spoon with her mouth open.  I am not exaggerating when I say she would simply not open her mouth before this.  Then yesterday, poof!  She decided she wanted food.  She has eaten yogurt and pears in the past two days. We'll stick with those for a few days and then move onto other flavors.  I'm so excited.

I finally put together a composite video of her various antics for the past month or so.  I tried to keep it short and just put in the cute stuff, but since I find everything she does cute, it's hard to edit.  It's a total of 3:35 with about 10 segments in it.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

The video is too cute, I love her expression when she's playing the air vent.

Lori said...

We shall call this video "The Best of Avery, Vol 1". The air vent. The noises. The crawling. She's ridiculously adorable. She even knows to lick the spoon...er, whisk!

Jake and Olivia's mom said...

I'm so in love with this baby!! What an absolute cutie pie! You must be having so much fun. BTW, I think you have my dream house! =)