New and Improved

It's been an exciting last few days for me. I'm learning and doing new things every day. I have no fear. Take this, for example. Okay, now how do I get down again?
I was so proud of myself and Mommy cheered me on. Now she's talking about baby gates a little more seriously.I've perfected crawling into laps for snuggles. Daddy was surprised when I crawled into his lap and pulled up to give him a hug this morning. I crawled into Mommy's lap after I got off of the stairs.
My balance is improving daily. In fact, I pulled myself to standing yesterday and let go completely. I stayed standing by myself for a little while and Daddy and Mommy were both watching. I had great timing for that first! Mommy will get pictures of that one of these days, but here I am dancing with one arm in the air.
My hair is growing like crazy and I mean, crazy. I look a little like Jack Nicholson here. There is definite curl in the back.
Mommy was brave enough to allow me to make a big mess last night. I ate a bunch of blueberries that were cut in half (not into eighths like she had been doing, silly Mommy). I also had some whole Cheerios and my avocado puree. It was all so delicious. Euclid did the rinse cycle on me and I laughed since it tickled so much. His breath smelled like blueberries for the rest of the night. It was a big improvement for him.
In addition, I got to drink some mommy milk out of a sippy cup. Mommy held me in cradle position and I still liked drinking out of the cup. She was surprised that I didn't want to drink out of the faucet, but I'm growing up. She isn't going to wean me for quite a while yet, but it's good for me to learn to drink out of something besides her.
I got a bath afterwards and my parents have figured out I can handle the big bath without any sort of mat. I'm such a big shot! I'm very sturdy when I'm sitting up. It's not like they'd leave me alone for a second and I love water! I had been trying to crawl out of the baby tub so it wasn't safe anymore.

My sleep has been improving overall. I had a terrible night on Saturday. Mommy made the mistake of feeding me squash and it gives me gas. She said that my screaming sounded like someone was disemboweling me. I didn't give up screaming like that for a long time. She had to take a nap yesterday morning. It turns out that another tooth was breaking through too so there was a reason I was in pain. I slept really well last night from 7:40-4:45 (Euclid woke me up) and then from 5:20-7:10. Everyone was happy about that.

I think that lots of things are funny these days. For the longest time the only way anyone could get me to laugh was by tickling me. Now I laugh at random. Daddy is still the funniest.

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Speaking of Daddy, he took really good care of my teeth last night. They brush them with a finger brush now that my mouth doesn't hurt so much. I love to get my teeth brushed!!!

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I'm going to let Mommy go hang out with Daddy and end here. He's on call, but he hasn't gotten any calls yet. Knock on wood!