Tickels and Giggles

Tickles = giggles:

Crawling and baby-gate installation:

Iris's first hike and more!

In honor of friend Josh's birthday, we went on a hike: Iris's first! Josh is the father of Hayden, Iris's birth buddy (born on the same day in the same hospital).


Mama and Iris:


Iris and Hayden clowning around:

Iris and Daddy:

Matt, Iris, Hayden, Josh:

In other news, Iris now pulls herself up to standing constantly. Which is all well and good, except when she does it half-asleep in the middle of the night and can't lie down again on her own. We have been having some tough nights with this recent development . . . Our most recent tactic is to put her the sleep sac that we recently got from our cousins to prevent her from standing up. This seems to be working the best. Standing at the cofee table:

We continue to give Iris new foods. She has recently tried carrots, sweet potato and green beans. Daddy decided to experiment with finger foods and gave Iris a bowl of tofu cubes. You can see the result here:

I've been trying to get video up, but am having trouble getting it to load all the way. Check back and hopefully I'll get some up.

Crawling

Evidence of crawling:


(this is a particular feat, given how slippery our kitchen floor is!)


This is what happens when you crawl in pyjamas. Iris got her left leg stuck in the body of her pyjamas, which pulled the neck down, and somehow she got her whole arm out. I hear togas are back, though, so . . .

Eight Months Tomorrow

On the cusp of Iris's eight month birthday, she is doing great. She has figured crawling out (I'll try to get a video up), but hasn't truly grasped the significance of her new skills yet. She will still only crawl a few paces and then sits down to play with her toys. She shuns many of her formerly beloved toys, which are apparently, boring, in favor of keys, measuring cups, tupper ware tops, pens (with caps on, of course) and anything electronic she can get at . . .

She can pull herself up to kneeling, which she enjoys doing a lot. Just this morning she pulled herself up on her knees at the coffee table in order to grab a piece of paper. Unfortunately, in the process of transferring the lovely paper from her right hand to her left hand, she let go with both hands, bonking her head on the table. A sign of times to come . . .

She is eating solids a few times a day now. Favorites are prunes and pears. Fresh local zucchini went over well as well. Yellow squash has been unpopular.

Some photos and videos below.

A few from our photo shoot in the yard this afternoon:

From this morning: Iris practising her yoga (in other words, pulling herself up on the dresser):

The Eckelmen Brouhards came for a visit over Labor Day weekend - yay! Here Karen and Iris read a book:

Lovely measuring cup, how I love you:

This one is from the BabyFest weekend. Iris pulled this Dutch wooden shoe off the shelf in Peter and Audrey's house to play with:

Another one from the BabyFest. Iris noms some Olive Garden bread, with celery as back-up in her other hand. Yum!