The Adventures of Lil Mouse

• Crawl everywhere, particularly everywhere mommy doesn’t want you.
• If she sees you, giggle like crazy and hurry up.
• Stop, to be sure she will catch you.
• Whine a little to protest being caught and then happily wiggle legs.
• Scream randomly during diaper changes.
• Try to touch the doodie.
• Pat at yourself to see what’s down there.
• Scream if mommy doesn’t want you to touch the doodie.
• Pull out a wipe for mommy.
• Try to eat the wipe. Pull it in 2 so you can try and eat the other part when mommy is busy with the other piece of it.
• Cry if mommy takes it away.
• Ignore all your toys.
• Play with everything potentially dangerous you can find.
• Bounce in your jumperoo. Scream while bouncing in your jumperoo.
• Accidentally bite with your 3 teeth.
• Chew on water bottles instead of real cold teethers.
• Check out what’s on your shirt, on daddy’s shirt, and pull mommy’s neckline down.
• Giggle and go after any toes you can see.
• Cry when no one will ‘help you’ pull up, even though you are capable.
• Bang on high chair to indicate that you would like another snack, please.
• Nap and nurse every 2 hours and then conk out for the night around 8.
• Bliss!

Why mysterious? You put her in shorts, tshirt, onesie, or pants, or any combination, and she will flop like she’s doing ‘the worm’. Put her in long sleeved/footed pjs and she can use all her limbs and trounce across the floor. What the heck?

Peek a boo is not necessarily a ‘cover your face with something’ game around our house. We also play peek a boo (the only way she will start it herself), by holding something you can see through, like a teething ring, up to her eyes and then looking at you and grinning. Are we messing her up, or what? She still hasn’t put anything over her face and then laughed about it or anything. Now, if we put say her shorts over her face while we are changing her diaper, she WILL pull them off, laugh hysterically, but that’s it. No repeat unless we put them back over said face. Sigh. She originally started playing peek a boo by looking back and forth around the car seat handle when I would lean up or back to change the radio station. Now she grins when she does it, like it’s a big ‘ol game.

Most of the time we can get her to wave at someone now, if we prompt her and get her arm up and going a bit. We swear she said hi or something like it as well the other day.

New sounds are OH and WHOA! Although I doubt she understands the significance of either one.

Several months ago she started helping by lifting her head up to put her onesies over them. Now she helps with her arms as well, and the last few days, after some big praises for ‘me’ lifting her hips, she will hike her heinie up to slide the new diaper underneath her. Seems like she responds to praise, which is good. She also seemed to react in a “negatory” fashion to me shaking my head and giving her the mommy look, which I also hope is very good. Can you hear me knocking wood over here?

9 month check up is the 23rd. Crossing fingers it goes well!