Notes to Self

Vera learned to drink from a twisty straw tonight by imitating her Daddy!  On top of that, she was drinking chocolate milk with her Chick-fil-A chicken strips kids meal.  Sooooo cute, those apple cheeks and ruby lips all puckered up!  Eatin' like a pro :)  We're not sure she's aware that her caloric needs will decrease in this next year.  We'll see if her weight starts flying off the charts and then step in if necessary HAHA.


Other cool "tricks" she knows now:

• "yeh-yeh-yeh" - calling Her YeYe (Grandpa), especially when she's in trouble...like when Mama's trying to hold her to take a nap.  This is a relief bec/ Mike and I were concerned that she has only been fixated on four different words "Ma-ma" "Da-da" (and the variant Da-Dee) "Nein-nein" and "Pa-pa" this past month...and that's only one or two vowels.  She had more vowels than that when she started vocalizing at three months.  But just this past week, her babbling's become much more varied :)  Yes, the travails we paranoid parents endure!
  

• Clap-clap-clap...pray (clasp hands together) - taught to her by her Gpa&Gma!

• When at the piano, press one key at a time rather than banging on a bunch

• How to open the yellow door on her knob toy!  It's a toy that lets the baby manipulate five different types of switches (side-to-side, up and down, teeter-totter, button and turnkey).  A different animal pops up with each switch.  She used to only be able to manipulate the button, but now she can do the teeter-totter one (I'm sure there's a better name for it). 
 

• Her upper teeth are FINALLY coming in.  Her lower teeth erupted right after her Gma Lily and Great Gma Diana left at the beginning of August.  And all four lower front teeth came in at the same time.  We thought the upper two would soon follow, but we waited months and nothing!  It seems like she's been working hard on them, though, because all four front teeth are appearing at the same time.  Haha!  Always making an entrance!