What's New

Here is Shelby all dressed up for the new baby celebration at our church on Sunday. It's really cute - they had a special service to recognize all the new babies born in 2010. It was separate from the regular service because 30 babies in the sanctuary = mass chaos! More pictures are in the gallery for this month.

What else is new:

• Shelby has really gotten into pointing lately and loves to point at you and point at stuff.
• She will repeat "mama" when I say it and point to myself and say "Who am I? Mama." She also claps when I clap and say "Yay!"
• She is a crawling machine and will crawl all over the room now. Time for the baby gates! She also loves to crawl over to doors and open and close them.
• She pulls up to her knees and her teachers said she will pull up to her feet, although we have not seen her do it at home yet.
• She will walk when you hold her hands for support.
• She reaches out her arms when she wants you to pick her up and will also reach for you if someone else is holding her. I don't know if it's because she has been sick, but she's seems to really be a mama's girl lately.
• Speaking of being sick... just when we thought she was getting over her bad cold, she broke out in a mysterious rash last week. The doctor thought it might be a reaction to the antibiotic she was on and told us to discontinue taking it. And today she was running a fever again! Ear infection was ruled out and she didn't have any other symptoms so far - just a fever. Will this latest round of sickness ever go away?! We are tired of it and I am ready for my poor girl to start feeling 100% again. She's like a totally different baby when she's feeling good and it's heartbreaking to see her feeling bad. Her sleep has been all over the place for what seems like forever, although she did sleep all night on Friday without any intervention from us, so I know it's possible when she is healthy and well.
• We're planning a small first birthday party for her and I am feeling a little bittersweet about it. I can't believe it's already been a year since she was born, even though it seems like she has always been with us. My little baby girl is growing up!