Please add …
Dada, hi, bye-bye, and apple to our list of words.
Oh pictures, where art thou?
MISSING:
Infant. Named Gwen. All I have is this toddler …
And I’m not sure where she came from …
I know, I know. It’s been a LOOOOOONG time since I’ve gotten to update you all on Gwen via pictures. Since the beginning of July, actually! I totally lost my camera cord and couldn’t even find the memory card/USB reader we bought a couple of years ago so I could NOT get my pictures off my camera! But, thankfully, I found both the card reader AND the camera cord and now we’re up and running again. I figured I’d shoot some pics up here and show you how much she’s grown in the past month! Read the rest of this entry »
She Talks!
We have gone from a one-word vocabulary (mama) to a four-word vocabulary in two days. While I was at my parents, Gwen learned to say berries (bays), ball (bah), and eyes (ice).
So. Cute. Can’t. Take. It.
I am amazed
At how quickly babies pick up their new skills! Yesterday, Gwen walked about 15 - 20 steps straight on 2 or 3 separate occasions, and even turned corners! She is bravely trying out her new skill everywhere … I think my favourite part is how she holds her hands out straight in front of her 
Giggling Gwen
We waited a loooooong time to hear Gwen giggle (I think she started doing it around 10 or 11 months?) but oh. my. goodness. Was it ever worth the wait!
Giggling Gwen from Kim Schell on Vimeo.
I’m walking on sunshine … wah-oh!
Er, I suppose Gwen is …
This morning during morning prayer, Gwen dropped a ball and walked across our living room to pick it up. 5 or 6 steps!
All day she was crouching and standing and crouching and standing and walking 4-6 steps off everything! It’s incredible that she literally went from taking 1-2 steps and falling immediately to walking 2 or 3 and then stopping to look at something and then taking a few more. I don’t think it’ll be long until it’s her preferred method of locomotion.
Goodness gracious, things are going to get BUSY!
She Walks! from Kim Schell on Vimeo.
12 Month Appointment!
Today we went for Gwen’s 12 month appointment.
Little MIss sitting on her ‘car’.
Ring, ring, ring - remotephone!
I read about kids starting to use items for their intended use around Gwen’s age and thought “Aw, how cute!”
Awwww, how cute!
Um yeah. Ridiculously cute! This is Gwen yesterday using the TV remote as a phone. We gave her the real cordless phone and she threw it on the ground. Apparently she doesn’t think it’s a real phone like the remote is!
Gwen started grabbing the comb out of my hand and rubbing it on her own head a couple of weeks ago and I realized just how crazy important that milestone really is. My kid now understands that a comb is for brushing hair! Wow! That’s a pretty big leap from the ‘what’s that spiky black thing and why are you rubbing it on my head?’ look she’s been giving me since birth …
The cutest yet? This morning while I was brushing my teeth, Gwen was holding her foot in one hand and a shoe in the other, trying to get her foot in the shoe.
(Is it bad that the thought after ‘Heehee - she’s trying to put her shoe on!’ was ‘oh crap, now she’s going to want to do it herself and the TANTRUMS, OH THE TANTRUMS!’)
Happy 11 Months!
I can’t believe my baby girl is only one short month away from turning one.
When did this happen?
I love paper! from Kim Schell on Vimeo.
Gwen Update … sans les photos
My laptop is … not cooperating? That’s my polite way of saying that the darn thing won’t turn on.
Yeah, I know. That’s what I think of it, too.
So anyways, I had some cute videos I was planning to upload and share today but here we are, without cute photos OR videos, but text’ll just have to do!
Gwen has started a very cute cruising behaviour - pacing back and forth along the couch, end table, exersaucer, chairs, etc. Go to one end … stop … go to other end … repeat. I love it!
Gwen can now “climb” the stairs. She can’t do it on her own (yet), but she rather enjoys climbing up the stairs while you hold her hands. She uses her right knee to get up the stair - it’s rather entertaining to watch!
Gwen wants to walk EVERYWHERE now. She will grab my fingers and then hurl herself off my lap and expect that I will indulge her and help her walk around the house. If I refuse or if I stop at any point, a full on screaming, head-thrown-back, gasping-for-air temper tantrum ensues. Charming.
I’ve been wondering why Gwen’s so … fussy … lately, as I hadn’t been able to see anything going on in her mouth. I snuck a look in there today and sure enough, her right eye tooth (which had been looking white but then gone away) is now white and a bit bulgy. Poor girl’s going to have completely lopsided teeth! She’s got the two middle bottoms, the right middle top, and the one to the right of that poked through late last week. If she gets her eye tooth it’ll be completely unbalanced. But cute 
We ordered some more board books for little miss so that we don’t go crazy reading the same ones again and again. We got Yes Yes (includes No No Yes Yes, Big Little, and Yummy Yucky), Pat the Bunny, Eco Babies Wear Green, and Urban Babies Wear Black. They’re all great books - the only thing I don’t like about any of them is that in Urban Babies Wear Black there’s a lot of pacifiers and bottles - no slings, no breastfeeding … but that’s the lactivist in me coming out!
