Event Explosion

For awhile Bella seems to plateau in her skills and doesn't do anything new for awhile, and then all of a sudden several new skills pop up at once.  This has been one of those weeks.  And poor baby started the week with a fever and nasty cold but she hasn't slowed down one bit.  I will say the first night she was ill brought me back to the newborn days of a sleepless night-every 30 minutes she would cough/fuss and although I didn't have to tend to her I was awake all night.  So needless to say we slept the day away together on Monday and then Tuesday the skills emerged. 

A few weeks ago she said "dee-dee" a few times and then we didn't hear it again.  It has returned with a vengence and that is all she says all day long.  In fact she has replaced napping with listening to herself practice her new word.  Sometimes it morphs into "dada" but mostly dee-dee.  That same day she began pulling up on her walker.  She can't get up from the floor but if she is sitting on my foot she can pull herself up without any help.  She then grins as big as possible-so proud of herself!!! 

I also let her feed herself some bananas.  Reading this you may be thinking "who cares"....but I have trained her not to grab the spoon or put her hands or bib in her mouth during meals-sorry, I'm a clean freak.  I'll be honest, i cringed the WHOLE time....I don't like messes....and now that we have to go to the laundry center in our apartment to wash clothes I am even less apt to creating more laundry!  But I let her go to town and she had fun for awhile but ended up getting frustrated and just opened her mouth like a little bird for me to feed her!

Then today she figured out how to click her tongue and I noticed a second bottom tooth coming in.  PHEW!!!!!  And daddy is missing it....boo!!! He is in Temple, TX (where? yea, that's right...Temple!!) for a job interview.  I'm not holding my breath for that one but God has changed my heart about where I "thought" I wanted to live before and He can do it again if that's where He wants us!  Sorry if the video overload is a little over the top...it's for my family's gratification who no longer gets to see Bella every week :(

Next time I will take video horizontally...sorry!