We Moved!

So it's been quite awhile since I posted here, but I've got a reasonable excuse... the three of us recently moved from Houston, back home to Iowa so we could be closer to family! We really love being back here, but we also really miss our Houston family!

Lately Annelise has been a pro at sitting up. When we were last in Houston, around mid-April, she was just barely able to sit up on her own for a couple seconds before tipping over. But now she's pretty confident on her own, and even I'm okay with letting her sit in the middle of the floor by herself while I go get a quick something from the kitchen or wherever (within eyesight of her!). There have been a couple topples where she landed wrong and bumped her head a little too hard, but she's resilient, and with a quick cuddle from mommy or daddy, she's good to go again!

One funny thing she does all the time, is twirl her feet around. It's most noticeable while she's sitting up, but she's been doing it since she realized she had feet. She'd do it in her bouncy seat, while laying on the floor, and now while sitting up! I don't know if it's a common thing for babies to do or not, but it's funny!

We gave her a bath in her inflatable ducky tab for the first time today! Let me tell you, using that thing is waaaaaay way way way easier than laying her in the regular tub and balancing and juggling, trying to keep her from sliding around and bonking her head. And she had fun in the tub, too! She'd poke at the bubbles the washcloth made as it dripped water into the tub. She also tried to grab at the washcloth a few times, but realized it wasn't really as fun to play with as mommy made it seem. :)

She's been doing really well with eating food. Just yesterday I bought her some sweet potato puff cereal to try out. She had a few of them, but gave me a really confused look when I stuck them in her mouth. I laid a few out for her to try to pick up and eat on her own, too. She would grab one at a time, but then it'd get stuck inside her tightly clamped fist. Her fist would go in her mouth, but the food wouldn't get out! That confused her for a bit until I just took the puff out for her and stuck it in her mouth. She's still super confused by them, though! We'll keep trying those gradually.

She had baby strawberry yogurt for the first time today. She pretty much loved it! We're still introducing solid food sparingly though, about one 3-4oz of food per day to go along with her milk meals. The below picture is a surprisingly good one of Annelise in her high chair in our fancy new kitchen, taken by Daddy!! (It's hard to get non-blurry pictures of her because she's so wiggly!)

Hm, let's see... what else? Her new room in the new house is massive. And so is her closet. Not sure what she needs all that room for, but I guess she can use it to practice rolling around! She's definitely become awesome at rolling. Occasionally her arm will get stuck weirdly beneath her as she rolls, but most of the time she's figured out just how to wiggle and roll to get where her brain wants her to go. She hasn't figured out crawling. I'm not sure she'll learn that before she decides to just up and walk though. We'll see!

That'll round out this edition. :) Hopefully I'll be back to posting more regularly!