She did and she said

H finally started crawling, but she's not a fan at all. She would much rather grab you by the hands and walk around with you. She doesn't care that it's killing your back. And neither do you since she's so cute. Well at least you don't care for the first two minutes, then your back tells you to care and you put her down and she screams. That's right. That content little baby has an opinion all of a sudden.
She realized today that she doesn't really need you to walk around. Cruising around the coffee table works too, but it's still pretty slow.

E has a few funny things she says from time to time that I don't think I've mentioned before. (Please forgive me if I have.)
In the fall she occasionally enjoys some apple Chris.
When she cooks she follows a reciPete.
Before she brushes her hair it's full of nuts.

"She said" through Facebook

I've posted a lot of fb statuses lately of all the adorable things E says and does and wanted to share them here.

• E: What's today?
  Me: It's Saturday.
  E: Saturday is candy day. I get candy after lunch.
  Me: Yes you do.
  E: Can I have breakfast AND lunch now?

• E: what are we going to cook?
  Me: We're going to cook you some soup.
  E: cook me?! But I don't want to be in a pot.

• Oh the faith of a little child: She wanted to pray that God would take my cold away and when she was done she looked at me and said "your cold is gone now Mamma". Gotta love her :)

• conclusion made by E after a life long observation of our family:
  "boys get hot coffee, girls get hot tea"

• I love listening to E as she tells me what she learned in Sunday school. Today she told me about Joseph and his special coat that got mud on it. :) And after she was done she said : Mamma, I'm glad we had this talk together.

• ‎"Everybody needs flowers."

• Me: Drop the attitude.
  E: (shook her head down) I dropped it on my foot, mamma.

• I put H down for a nap and promised E that as soon as H fell asleep we could go outside. I then got the monitor from our bedroom, unplugged it, put in batteries, turned it on and heard big sister singing "go to sleep, go to sleep" to little sister. So sweet, but it had the opposite effect.

• E's in the tub drawing a picture of our family. "That's you, mamma,
  holding H. And that's you daddy, fixing something."

• my planned lunch: one wasa cracker with hummus and one with a boiled egg and kalles kaviar. I had both spreads on the crackers and was waiting for my egg when E decided to turn my crackers into a sandwich. If you know what kalles kaviar is you know how gross that is. But what do you say when she smiles and thinks she's a great helper?

• making lemony asparagus pasta for dinner. While I was trimming the asparagus E said: "ooh, bamboo!"

• served butternut squash soup with homemade croutons and afterwards E said: "That was delicious lunch, mamma! It was so yummy!"

• Just read from the Jesus storybook Bible about Adam and Eve to E. She said: "They have to listen to Jesus and the snake has to stop eating the bananas." =)

• my oldest daughter is a sticky mess. "Mamma, I like nipple cream!"

"I made a note book just like you"

Did you see
my
post
over
on
my
other
blog?
Well,
E watched me as I put it together
and decided
she
was going
to
be
just
like
mamma.
So here's her note book...

3/4

H is now nine months old. That's three quarters of her first year! (Yes, still a math freak.) I was looking through some newborn pics of her and just wanted to pick up that little baby again. It made me realize how big she's actually gotten, because most days I see her as tiny. She is nine months old and still weighs less than E did at her 6 months well visit. It's a little different going from a baby in the 90th percentile for weight to a baby in the 25th. What can I say? E takes after me and H takes after her daddy. (Not that we're in the 90th and 25th percentile now. I think we both evened out a little bit.)

She's still not crawling which just recently started to frustrate her. She tries so hard and then when it looks like she's about to do it she lays down and rolls over. So she gets around. Just not in the direction she had planned.

We (read C) lowered the crib today since she can pull herself up to standing. And she will take a few steps if you hold her hands. E finds this fascinating and pulls her up to standing all the time and tries to help her. She also carries her around. We try to tell her she has to ask first but I think she ignores that because she knows the answer would be no.

Tags are still a favorite "toy".

She has four teeth.

I still serve mostly baby food but occasionally she gets to enjoy my fabulous cooking. ;) She really enjoyed that beef stew we had the other day.

Can I just say I am so tired of pumping. The only reason I'm doing it still is so that I have something to mix her cereal with. What should I use instead?

I tried feeding her egg yolk which made her puke. E fed her pb behind my back. That made her puke. I read that pb allergy and egg allergy often go hand in hand and we have those allergies in the family so the dr suggested we get her tested for egg allergy before giving her the flu shot. Please pray that it comes back negative! The appointment is the 22nd of this month.

She LOVES bath time. She now takes bath with E in the big tub and she gets so excited. Not in the same way E used to, she was more hyper excited. You can see that H gets excited too, but more in a way that she smiles, it relaxes her. It actually goes along perfect with her personality.

Well, that's all I can think of as of right now. If I think of anything else I might sneak in here and update this post. Or not. I might just spend that time snuggling with my beautiful girls instead. Or my husband if the girls are asleep. Right now they're all asleep though. And soon I will be too.