The Strahans: January 2013

Where does time go? I say this every time I do a monthly post and yet every time it amazes me how quickly my baby girl is growing!

This photo session took 2 attempts because of this! She wouldn't sit still for ANYTHING!

And she was constantly doing this! Give me that camera mommy!

This is torture mommy!

Our sweet Maddie, bless her heart, while continuing to battle sickness and ear infections has grown and changed so much over the last month!

Here a few things we she has discovered and we have learned about her:

-She started crawling just after turning 8 months and is everywhere and into everything!

She is pulling up and will stand for a few seconds independatly. She has just started to use her push toys to walk around the house and loves to walk while holding on to someones hands. She has also just recently discovered how to climb up the stairs by herself, and while she is more cautious than Sophi she is not fearful!

-Maddie loves to explore on her own. It is so neat to see how God can make two children from the same two people so different. Maddie has to learn by herself, no matter how many times you show her how to do something she only fully masters it after figuring it out for herself.

-She loves her sister! She usually wants to be doing whatever Sophi is doing! Now that she is crawling she can often be found following Sophi around. Sophi loves to play chase with her :)

-She still loves to eat! She loves fruit most of all which means she usually doesn't get any until the end of her meal or she won't eat anything else. We discovered this last month that she is allergic to green peas! Didn't even know you could be allergic to those things!

-She loves to play the "uh oh" game right now. While she doesn't really say any other words yet she says "uh oh" constantly! She loves to throw her paci's out of her bed and exclaim "uh oh" over and over. She also now waves hello and bye bye.

-She takes two naps a day and sleeps from 7pm to 7am which mommy and daddy are very grateful for! She can miss her morning nap if she needs to (which is more often than not with big sister!) but still prefers to have two right now.

-She is still our little bit, weighing 14 1/2 pounds just last month.

-Mommy is still her favorite person but she has really started to warm up to her daddy! He can always make her laugh. She has also stayed 4 days with her Grammy and Lolly while we were on vacation and was so good without us! Such a big girl!

-She still loves to be outside even in the freezing cold!

-Her hair continues to grow in thick and SUPER curly! We finally discovered headbands which work so much better than bows do in her hair! Mommy is still learning how to work with curly hair :)

-She likes to read books but doesn't love it like her sister did at this age. She would prefer to simply flip the pages instead of listen to the words!

We keep falling more and more in love with this precious girl and constantly thank God for this sweet bundle of joy!

1/31/13

Maddie's Stats

1/24/13

Maddie is 9 Months old

1/7/13

Crawling