7 posts tagged “12 months”
I still have tons of stuff to do!!!!
Hazel is at daycare right now. As we speak, she's watching Barney and snatching some poor kid's toy away. This house is so quiet without her here...I think maybe it's haunted also. We wanted to take her to daycare so I could get some work done without staying up until 2 am every night, and so far I've eaten breakfast, updated Facebook, and edited the pictures I took of her this morning. Look at me, Mom - OVERACHIEVER. Seriously though, I am about to crack down on some studies, but I leave you with two pictures of excited, dorky parents with a completely clueless child.
I have finally, in the midst of all the reading & typing & cooking & not showering I've been doing, edited all the pictures from Hazel's birthday party.
Today is the anniversary of several things:
I've got a backlog of stuff that I haven't uploaded, so stuff has just been sitting around, looking cute from the desktop of my computer. This video was taken just a few days ago - short but sweet!
Something is wrong with my child. When I'm home with her, which I don't know if you realize this, but it's all day long everyday, she can't play alone. She can't sit on the floor while I sit in a chair like a 26-year-old should. In her perfect universe, I will sit cross-legged on the floor while she crawls around, drops stuff on the table & into my lap, and occasionally sits on my knee before diving back on the floor for another block or my hairbrush. Should I sip coffee, scoot across the floor, turn the TV on, scratch my knee, SHE KNOWS and will attack me instantly. While she's playing, though, she basically ignores me the whole time. So I'm like a giant, breathing armchair that gets gradually more and more annoyed until I finally stand up, maybe to get coffee or go to the bathroom, and she has a meltdown and follows me for a couple of steps, only to put her face on the floor and dissolve into tears.
I'll just get right to it - Hazel took her first steps yesterday!! In an AT&T store, which just makes me feel like a big yuppie dork. Amos and I went to Syracuse yesterday to replace our pretty old, battery-not-working, scratched-up cell phones with iphones. Amos has a student who works there, and he was nice enough to cut us a deal, so we went all the way out there in a flurry yesterday afternoon. The flurry part was my fault. I just wanted to get it over with, plus we needed to go to the mall out there anyway (actually, turns out we didn't, but we didn't know that until we got there). While in AT&T, Hazel and I had a lot of time on our hands, so I took her out of the stroller & let her practice walking. She just seemed like she wanted to run away from me, and since I had not had any garlic, beans, vinegary products that day, I thought she might be ready to try walking on her own. And she did! She walked back and forth between the two of us. She walks really fast, all leaned forward, and laughs the whole time. Luckily this happened yesterday, because she's cutting another new tooth (#5 is completely out now) and was acting like someone coming off methadone.
