First Steps - Kinda

Jenna took her first steps yesterday - kinda. She doesn't quite have it figured out, but has at least moved her feet a couple times to move a (very) short distance.  She was willing to show me a couple times when I got home from work and showed Aaron once, but then got mad when we were trying to get her to walk on her own and refused to do it again.

On an unrelated note - for the first time in my life I'm NOT excited for the time to "fall back". Am I going to have a fussy baby in the evening and then a super eary morning (this week she's been trying to get up at 6!)? Any other moms of young kids not so excited for the time change? :)

UPDATE

Folks, don't fret about the dog bone from the previous post - we don't actually let Jenna get it. Of course now you may be fretting that we're mean parents...

Watching Football

We are at Jenna's Uncle Evan's 8th grade football game (Aaron helps coach). Jenna and I decided to watch from the truck. She's in the front seat in my lap and, I believe, has touched every button in the vehicle!

We still haven't gotten her to take a step on her own. This morning we were laughing about how Portia's dog bone was the main incentive for her crawling, so we got it out and tried to get her to walk to it. It almost worked, she stood there looking at it and leaned way forward, but wouldn't move her foot to step. She sat down and got mad and was mad at us for a few minutes. We put it up...till another day. :)

Story hour

Jenna and I just got back from her first story hour (the pic is of her sleeping on the way home). The Gardner library is holding a 4 week session specifically for infants and toddlers, so we decided to go. It was so much fun. Jenna was so excited to see lots of kids, although all but Thomas were quite a bit older. She played with some toys for a little while, then we sang a song, did introductions, read two stories and sang a couple more songs. She got really excited when we were singing and liked listening to the stories, but during introductions, she just wanted to get off my lap and crawl around the room. I wouldn't let her, so she threw a brief temper tantrum and continued to try to escape. It wasn't nearly as fun as the rest of the event. One of the books we read had a cow in it and she can say moo, so she thought it was fun to say moo with the older kids (albeit, she usually started a few seconds after they were done). I also think she tried to flap her arms like a duck, which the older kids were doing. Cute!

Oh talking about making cow noises reminds me of something that happened last week. There is a petting zoo near us called Deanna Rose Farmstead. We met a friend for a playdate last week. One of the buildings had an older calf in it. Jenna was excited to see it and was saying 'mooo', but then the calf started mooing herself. Jenna got a perplexed look on her face - like, that's not how a cow sounds. Then the cow mooed again and Jenna threw her arms out and screamed! It scared her. Of course the cow kept mooing, which scared her more and more! I picked her up and hugged her and we left the barn, but it took a little bit to calm her down. I thought it was ironic that the one animal that she can imitate terrified her!

Grr!

So do you think Tupperware's lifetime guarantee covers dogs with chewing fetishes? Yes, that is the lid of a sippy cup that I unfortunately did not was between the time Jenna drank it and putting her to bed (which I did immediately after she drank it).  Grr!

Jenna has started to say 'uh-oh' when she drops things, although it is usually just 'uh' or 'oh'. Today she started saying 'uuggghhhhggghhh-oh' (imagine someone starting to say 'uh', but then clearing their throat and then whispering 'oh'. It is rather hilarious, but I wonder what the other Johnson County moms will think when my princess growls in front of them after dropping her sippy cup (that she obviously shares with her dog)???

Finally Figured It Out

A couple weeks ago I got Jenna to drink from a straw, but since then she hasn't been able to - until today. Aaron and I stopped by McDonalds for lunch and then stopped by my mom's. Aaron drank his tea, then refilled the cup with water. I was mentioning that I was unable to get her to use a straw since the initial success, so he gave it a try. After a few attempts, she figured it out. Of course we were all cheering her on and my daughter, who LOVES attention (and praise), kept doing it. We finally had to take the cup away because she drank so much. Tonight at dinner I let her have a drink from my water and she immediately drank from it, so I think she has finally figured it out for good.

Oh the power of chips

Aaron is going to be out of town deer hunting for the next few days, so we decided to go to dinner. Jenna ate while we waited for food and we gave her a chip while we ate. It took about 5 minutes for her to eat one - awesome! But she started wanting to share with us. That was really cute, but then the sharing turned to everyone else, waiters, other customers, you get it. :) it is nice that she is so sweet though!