update on Bella

Bella is scootin' all over, she's not crawling yet but she's working on that. We are still trying to learn how to sit on her own and pull to stand, but that will come with time. I took her to the Doctor Wednesday for a fever and throwing up a little. He didn't see anything to worry about but gave us some antibiotics for a possible ear infection. I think she will be feeling better tomorrow. She weighed in at 19lbs and 5 oz. She is growing so fast, it's fun to look back at the different things we have worked with on her. Reaching for things, looking at things, babling, getting out of sitting and her laugh. I love to hear her laugh, sometimes it's hard to get it out, but so worth the work to hear it. I am excited, she is so close to being able to sit up on her own, that will be a thrilling day for me. We are trying to teach her to pull to stand from a half kneel, but I think it will be a little while before she can pull to stand on her own. Imitating is another thing to work on, trying to get her to bable more adult like, ba ma da rather than ba ba ba. We also need to start teaching her how to follow commands, things like let go of mommy's hair ( which she does fairly well) and play peek a boo or patty cake (without being shown anything first). Getting her to stay on her hands and knees to try and crawl, the little mess flop. She likes to straighten her legs and flop forward which makes it hard to get her to crawl. It's really neat to learn all the steps to sitting and standing but a lot of work.
As far as me and my weight, well.... not so good, but at least I'm not putting on more:P We (meaning me) have been talking about doing the blood type diet (no, we haven't started yet) but I started looking into the south beach life style and like that better. With all the party's coming up (birthday and Christmas) we might wait until the first of the year to really start but we are trying to cut out some starchy carbs and sweets. Not that I think we eat to many sweets. and we have added an excersize to our day, stairs. now that our house has a set of stairs, we have been going up and down them 6 or so times at a time, each day. Wow it's Way past my bed time, later.