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Sunday, December 27, 2009
Merry Christmas!
We leave for Michigan tomorrow to spend a belated Christmas with our families, but first, here is a glimpse of some of the holiday festivities we had here in Colorado. Merry Christmas!
Thursday, December 17, 2009
More Talking and More Teeth
The last couple of days have been rather eventful. First, Taelyn spoke her third word, "duckie," on Tuesday. She was in the bathtub, playing with her rubber duckie, and after I said the word several times, she started to say "duckie." The next day, we were at some friends' house where Taelyn got to play with their dog. Again, I said the word "doggie" over and over, and then Taelyn said it back as she was looking at the dog. She has known the meaning of these words for a few weeks now, but this is the first time she actually said them.
Since Taelyn is starting to identify words with objects, she loves to read her touch-and-feel baby animal book with us. We look at each animal on the page together while Justin and I say the name of the animal. Taelyn loves to go back and read this book over and over again to learn the names of each animal. Then afterward, I will take out her animal puzzle and ask her to find a specific animal from her book like the bunny. After studying the bunny from her book, she immediately grabs that puzzle piece. It's really neat to see her making these connections.
Today, I also noticed another tooth, totaling nine now. It is up top, but not next to the other four. Instead, it is a couple of spaces down on the right toward the back.
Since Taelyn is starting to identify words with objects, she loves to read her touch-and-feel baby animal book with us. We look at each animal on the page together while Justin and I say the name of the animal. Taelyn loves to go back and read this book over and over again to learn the names of each animal. Then afterward, I will take out her animal puzzle and ask her to find a specific animal from her book like the bunny. After studying the bunny from her book, she immediately grabs that puzzle piece. It's really neat to see her making these connections.
Today, I also noticed another tooth, totaling nine now. It is up top, but not next to the other four. Instead, it is a couple of spaces down on the right toward the back.
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Taelyn - 10 Months
Taelyn is now 10 months old, measuring 20 lbs., 28.5 inches long, and has a head circumference of 18 inches. Just yesterday, she got two more teeth, making a total of 8 (4 on top, and 4 on bottom
). She is still crawling all the time and pulling herself up against furniture and any object she encounters. She loves to walk along these objects and is cautious at times to prevent falling. At the same time, she is a bit more daring moving from object to object. She used make sure she had a hand on each object before moving from one to the next, but now she will take a step without the support of one hand to make it to another object. Taelyn has also improved her hand-eye motor skills. She can take two different toys and bang them against each other.
This past month has been all about dancing! Taelyn absolutely loves to dance and will do so anywhere, anytime: when she stands up against the coffee table, sitting on her knees, when she sees other babies, when she gets excited at the baby gym, and any time she hears music. She especially loves dancing to our singing/dancing Grinch Christmas decoration. We have a great video of this that we will post on our Christmas Smilebox later this month.
Taelyn's personality has also sparkled more and more. She is very affectionate and doesn't like to be left alone very often. She wants Justin or I to be by her side constantly. Though she prefers our company best, she is still fantastic with other people. She even had her first non family friend baby-sitter this month, and she had a blast playing with someone new. Taelyn loves her baby doll, ball, books, puzzles, and Sesame Street. She especially likes the doggie piece of her puzzle because she loves dogs.
). She is still crawling all the time and pulling herself up against furniture and any object she encounters. She loves to walk along these objects and is cautious at times to prevent falling. At the same time, she is a bit more daring moving from object to object. She used make sure she had a hand on each object before moving from one to the next, but now she will take a step without the support of one hand to make it to another object. Taelyn has also improved her hand-eye motor skills. She can take two different toys and bang them against each other.This past month has been all about dancing! Taelyn absolutely loves to dance and will do so anywhere, anytime: when she stands up against the coffee table, sitting on her knees, when she sees other babies, when she gets excited at the baby gym, and any time she hears music. She especially loves dancing to our singing/dancing Grinch Christmas decoration. We have a great video of this that we will post on our Christmas Smilebox later this month.
Taelyn's personality has also sparkled more and more. She is very affectionate and doesn't like to be left alone very often. She wants Justin or I to be by her side constantly. Though she prefers our company best, she is still fantastic with other people. She even had her first non family friend baby-sitter this month, and she had a blast playing with someone new. Taelyn loves her baby doll, ball, books, puzzles, and Sesame Street. She especially likes the doggie piece of her puzzle because she loves dogs.
Monday, December 7, 2009
First Words
Over the last couple of weeks, Taelyn has been talking a lot more than before and has actually started saying some of her first words. The first word came after Taelyn had pulled herself up to stand on the coffee table and then fell down. She instantly started crying and crawled straight toward me for comfort. In the midst of tears and moans, she called out "Maaaa" and landed in my lap. A similar situation reoccurred just last night where she called out my name again.
About a week later from the first word, Taelyn was bouncing and playing on Justin's lap when she started saying, "Dad-dy, Dad-dy, Dad-dy" over and over again. Since then, "daddy" is her favorite word, and she says it all the time. She doesn't always associate it with Justin, though. Sometimes her baby doll is daddy, the phone is daddy, and just about anything else she sees can be daddy.
Other than spoken words, we can tell that Taelyn can understand quite a few words as well. Whenever we tell her to give us kisses, she opens her mouth and smacks a big one on our cheeks. She also knows the words "ball" and "baby doll." Just yesterday I told her to go find her ball, and she looks around the room until she spotted and crawled right to it.
It has been really fun watching her figure out language and try out new sounds. On several occasions, we have said a word or two and it sounds like she imitates it afterward. And there are other times where it sounds like she says an entire phrase on her own, but we know this is just a coincidence.
About a week later from the first word, Taelyn was bouncing and playing on Justin's lap when she started saying, "Dad-dy, Dad-dy, Dad-dy" over and over again. Since then, "daddy" is her favorite word, and she says it all the time. She doesn't always associate it with Justin, though. Sometimes her baby doll is daddy, the phone is daddy, and just about anything else she sees can be daddy.
Other than spoken words, we can tell that Taelyn can understand quite a few words as well. Whenever we tell her to give us kisses, she opens her mouth and smacks a big one on our cheeks. She also knows the words "ball" and "baby doll." Just yesterday I told her to go find her ball, and she looks around the room until she spotted and crawled right to it.
It has been really fun watching her figure out language and try out new sounds. On several occasions, we have said a word or two and it sounds like she imitates it afterward. And there are other times where it sounds like she says an entire phrase on her own, but we know this is just a coincidence.
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