Ready to Run

Little miss Winter can hardly wait to keep up with

her brother and sisters.

As soon as we returned from New York, which put

her at just under 5 1/2 months, she decided it was

time to sit all by her onesies and army crawl all over

the house. It's been fun to watch her get around on her

own. Her favorite toys to find are Little People animals,

Princess toys, old cell phones (she'd actually rather have

a working one) and remotes. She likes to taste EVERYTHING

she finds, which keeps me on top of picking up anything left

behind by the other kids, ie; stray Legos

and Barbie shoes, you get the picture.

At her 6 month check up on the 19th of July she was 26 1/2

inches and 15lbs 6 oz. Which makes her my tallest child at

this age, and skinniest girl. I know I've said it already, but

I just love seeing the differences in all of them. So the

doctor was right in his prediction that she would be

crawling at 6 months. Nobody else crawled until around 9

months. Lex was also an army crawler. Her new thing for

this month is her want to stand everywhere. When I try to

sit her down on the floor she straightens her body because

she would rather stand. She loves to stand against the

coffee table or couch and actually started pulling herself up

from sitting. I guess she just didn't want to be a baby for too long.

Her other new development is two sharp little teeth.

This is also much sooner than her siblings. She loves to

stick my finger in her mouth and try to saw it off. Nursing

hasn't been too painful yet, I'd like to keep it that way!

Winter has such a funny little personality. She looks at

you and you know she wants to say something. She has

started mimicking, which is just too cute. I'll shake my

head back and forth and then she'll do it too. She

mimics a few noises too, including an inhaling/gasping

noise and kisses. She is such a cute kisser and loves to

give them, especially to her reflection. But, if Jon or I

ask her for a kiss she'll click her tongue tomake the the

sound and then open her mouth and lean toward us.

Love it!

As I sit here at the computer, she crawls over and gets

under the desk, and is generally occupied for a few

minutes, but then her new favorite spot is right on top

of the desk giving whatever pictures I'm editing kisses

and dumping out the contents of the container of writing

utensils. She also loves music and hums along with

whatever anyone is singing, or playing (violin, piano,etc.)

When I sit down to play the piano, I sit her in her high chair

next to me and she has a blast accompanying the songs I play.

Winter has been so much fun and we can't wait for her to start

walking and running around after her siblings, I'm not so sure

they will love that idea though...