Nothing too interesting I just can't believe how much she has changed

a little bouncing

Trunk or Treat

Z and I went with my parents to their church trunk or treat. Here are some photos of my little bunny. No I don't know why rabbits have a pom pom on their head...

almost crawling

10.18.09

Now that I let Zatanna feed herself baby food, she only lets me help for a few minutes. Obviously, this has led to a lot of bath times. Tonight we tried to use the big bath tub instead of the infant one. I don't think we will do that again until we have some non slip stuff on the bottom. Nothing happened except that mommy didn't get to let go at all and worried every time Z moved to grab something. She was a big fan of the rubber ducky and how every time she would grab him he would go under water and pop back up. Also, now that she has decided reclining is no longer acceptable in the tub that she has to be sitting with her face down staring at the rubber ducky or playing in the water, bathtime has become increasingly more difficult for mommy. This not only makes the rinsing the soap out of the hair more difficult but hopefully the front of her body is actually clean since I can't see it. On a good note, her back is very clean :)
I have decided I need to find a baby outfit just for eating. One that covers her from neck to toe. Like when little kids paint they use garbage bags...this is very similar but I don't want to use garbage bags. I think I am going to have to make one...sounds like a simple project.
It is pretty funny to watch her eat. Seating there minding my own business when she takes her little fist and pounds it into the green beans splattering it all over her, me, the high chair, floor whatever is within a short range. What I wonder is why does she grab the food with her hands and not try to eat it. She only ever tries to eat what is on the spoon. The rest is for decorating.
Oh and when she is tired and she has her hands full of food and rubs her eye...sweet, funny and Oh my gosh all rolled into one.

Dinner and shopping

Tonight, I tried to get Z to feed herself. She has the spoon thing down but she hasn't mastered getting the food on the spoon. As you can see from the video below it was a messy time but lots of fun!
After bathtime, we went to walmart to buy some cold weather clothes. I still need to get outerwear (mittens(too cute), hat and a coat) they don't have many when I look for them...but they have to be somewhere, right?

Oct 7th...7 months

Zatanna turned 7 months on the 4th of Oct and she has started to say "mom". I am pretty sure she doesn't fully know what it means but she says it a lot and I love every second of it. 

In other news, I heard that today at Grandma & Grandpa Penny's house she pulled herself up to standing in one of their laundry baskets...although I am sad to have missed it the visual is pretty cute and I am sure she will do it again at some point although I don't think I have a laundry basket that sturdy. :)

I am trying to avoid the TV if at all possible after work (except Biggest Loser and the Office) . I find that I spend most of my time trying to keep Zatanna entertained so I can watch it and I would rather watch her grow than find out I spent her childhood watching the TV instead. We have instituted a mommy baby dinner when I get home. We sit at the dinner table and I feed her dinner while I eat mine. Hopefully, I can keep it going. The thing I wanted most when I first saw my mom after school or whatever was to have time to sit and talk about what was going on so I definitely want to keep that up with Z. 

She has been waking up in the middle of the night once or twice this week. She is not hungry she just wants to cuddle or play. I am not going to complain we have been extremely blessed with her sleep schedule it is just something to get used to and I would be ok if she decided she wanted a full nights sleep instead:)