Happy Birthday to Mom!

Yesterday was my Mom's birthday. I'll be nice and not share with you how young she is. The whole family went to Harvey's to celebrate and we had a great time. For those of you who don't know me or haven't had the chance to talk to me for 5 minutes, my family is SO important to me and a big reason for that is my Mom. I learned to appreciate the value of the unconditional love and support that family gives from her. She's never been less than 100% there for any of us and, even though she may not always agree with the paths we may take, we all know we have her undying love to fall back on. She's one of a kind and there's no better person God could have chosen to be my Mom. So, here's to you Sherry Faye (aka Nana)! I hope your birthday was as wonderful and special as you are! I love you bunches!

Seven Months

The star of our blog is now 7 months old! Since I am STILL a baby book reject, the following is as much for my benefit as it is for your amusement.

Things Caris can do: She's crawling; she can go from crawling to sitting up and vice versa; she's pulling up (mostly up on her knees, but she can get up on her feet a little); she's feeding herself finger foods; she's attempting to "patty-cake"; she's slowly finding her voice and will babble ONLY when she's in the mood.

Favorite foods: Sweet potatoes are still the hands-down favorite! She'll also eat bananas, pears, squash, mixed vegetables and applesauce. She's a BIG fan of the biter biscuits but she only gets those at home where I can strip her down to her diaper because those things are MESSY! She loves water and hasn't really formed a liking for any kind of juice. She can't get enough of the Gerber Graduates puffs in sweet potato and apple cinnamon.

Odds and ends:

• We have spent who knows how much on toys and gadgets to entertain this little girl and I finally found the ULTIMATE attention getter - a box of Huggies! This child will spend hours pulling up on and hitting the top of this thing!
• She's not a real big fan of TV. I've tried the Baby Einstein and Veggie Tales DVDs, but she's just not having it. That is probably a good thing in the long run but, for now, anything I have to do must wait until nap time!
  
• This child LOVES, I repeat LOVES for her Daddy to take her for rides on the 4-wheeler. She also likes to go for rides with Nana and Pop in the golf cart. This is a sure-fire way to calm her down if she's fussy or put her to sleep if she's really fighting a nap.
• She covets the remote control. I've given her an old one to play with but that's not good enough. She wants the real deal!
• She is a bloodhound when it comes to tags. Tags on blankets, tags on clothes, etc. And she's way too smart for those "Taggies" toys because she'll find the actual tag and that's what she chews on. All of the other tags are just a waste.