Ten months

I am finally updating the blog for 10 months, even though Addie has been ten months for a couple of weeks now. I have been very busy, and life is a blur! Even though it is wonderful to spend the summer with Addie, it is a little nice to be back to work. I'm glad that I have the best of both worlds - summers, and school years.

Adelaide seems to be forming rudimentary language, she's trying to say dog, cat, and dadda. Just a few sounds, but they're getting more consistent. She also thinks a squirrel is a dog. She can now walk very well around furniture, the wall, and with a push-toy. She's a big giggler now, and loves to play with (and eat, ew, if we don't move fast enough) toilet paper and kleenex.

She won't take a bottle at daycare, but loves to eat finger food, and soft adult foods. Her favorite food is risotto - the way we eat it with chicken, garlic, mushrooms, and parmesan cheese. She also love greek-style pasta (a la Northwestern Steak House for the Mason City folks).

What a fun age! Here is a photo from the day before she turned ten months:

Nine months - jumpin' and jivin'!

Here's a video of Adelaide (almost nine months) jiving to some live jazz music at a restaurant in Lutsen, MN, during our recent trip to the North Shore of Lake Superior. The song is one of her favorite jazz tunes, Blue Monk by Thelonious Monk, but my camera has a lousy microphone. She's such a music lover! She still sings when we go for walks and when she's happy - a cute, wordless tune.


We are teaching Adelaide sign language - she can do one sign so far (the sign for "milk", no surprise there). Adelaide can now crawl quite quickly on all fours, make a pleasant little clicking noise and can blow raspberries, pull up and stand with furniture, and walk a along the furniture. She now eats soft finger food (like bread or puffed cereal), which is a good way to keep her happy while we eat :) She loves to laugh - especially at her daddy.




She has her two bottom teeth, and two teeth on top, but those are not the usual front two teeth - they are the next door teeth. In other words, she inherited the "Osborn Fangs". Her front two teeth are coming in now, so hopefully I can get a photo of the fangs, but it isn't as easy as it sounds to get a photo like that.

We are having a blast this summer! It will be hard to put her back in daycare this fall!

Eight Months

Adelaide is eight months old! As hard as it was to go back to work when she was three months old, it is really nice to be home with her at this age. We're having so much fun! Adelaide is scooting on her belly still, she hasn't moved to true crawling. This is mainly because she doesn't seem to care about crawling. The 'worm' gets her where she wants to go, and this way she can concentrate on learning to pull up and climb. To that end, here is a picture of her climbing onto 'the baby shelf.' We think that the coffee table designer must have designed it as such. She pulls off all her books, and then climbs in.



Another favorite activity each day is our music time. Addie is big on singing - she sings on walks, when she plays, looking in the mirror, and in the car along with late 1990's Latin pop. She has her own ipod playlist for the stereo, which includes much world music, Johnny Cash, and blue grass. She also likes to play her piano/xylophone. We thought the xylophone would be too hard, but she can get a pretty good sound out of it, when she's not teething on the mallet.




Here's my bathing beauty! Adelaide now loves swimming, and I finally got a baby pool so she can practice for her swim class. She loves the water, and isn't afraid to put her face in! Unfortunately, putting her face in allows her to drink the water. s At least the water at home has less chlorine than in the pool. She will kick and paddle, and splash.

Adelaide scoots!

Adelaide finally progressed today from scooting an inch or two to actually scooting a few feet! This is great news because she was getting frustrated by her lack of mobility! I have a video of her scooting, sorry about the bad camera work. I couldn't get a photo of her little emerging tooth, she wouldn't open wide for me. When it's bigger, it will be more obvious, and easier to capture.




Here is Adelaide meeting her Great Grandma Osborn in Omaha!

Seven Months!

Here's Adelaide in daddy's Rock Band box (his birthday present).

Adelaide turns seven months tomorrow! I can't believe it. In the past couple of days, she's started the real babbling - with consonants and vowels. It sounds like "ba, da, and ga." She started creeping. She's up to about 2 inches now, but she really wants to go. This weekend we are taking our first plane ride to Omaha to see family. A nice, short plane ride (and Grandma Susan for an extra set of hands/extra lap). She likes the Ergo carrier now, so we don't have to bring the stroller, which should help. She is so happy to play and go places now.

Meeting Great-Grandparents!

Adelaide's baptism was last weekend over Mother's day! Four generations of Gienapp women. It was her first time meeting her great-grandparents! She was very good during church - she especially loved the music. My first mother's day, and Addie sent me flowers! She also made me a handprint with a picture and a frame. She now sits up for hours playing (as long as people play with her). She seems very close to creeping - we really need to baby-proof!

Six months and Sitting up!

Adelaide has been showing interest in sitting, sitting with support for awhile. Over Easter weekend, she was up to sitting for about six seconds before she fell over. At the same time, she didn't get a lot of chances to practice, because she was held the entire time! She went from arms to arms to arms.

Then, after work on Monday, April 13, she started sitting - really sitting - for several minutes! I knew she must have been practicing at daycare. Sure enough, they spent a long time on Monday practicing sitting with her, and now she can do it!

She is now sticking her tongue out at people (in a nice and funny way), and it's really cute. I'm trying to capture a picture. Please note: In real life she's really smiley! She makes cute faces all the time, but she is really curious about the camera, and so we have difficulties getting the really smiley faces.

I can't believe she's six months old tomorrow! She's about 17 pounds (we'll go to the doctor soon). She's growing out of her 3-6 month sleepers. She now loves peek-a-boo and "So big!" What a big girl!