My Zurber

Zuri is my favorite little tike. Currently she is sitting on the floor, singing to herself and watching her hands wiggle this piece of plastic that once was a price tag attached to my belt. I don't know if it's Vermont or what, probably because I have so much time to watch her that I've noticed her doing so much more. Her fingers can now push food up to get in between her thumb and index finger and instead of just putting the food that's sticking up into her mouth she watches as her entire fist goes with it.

We took a little family trip to the nearest mall in "Rut-Vegas" about an hour away to get her new earrings. It had been over 6 weeks and I was itching to buy her something new. So we picked out diamond studs and diamond daisies. Currently wearing the daisies. I love them, she looks even girlier, if that's possible.

She is crawling now. When we left almost two weeks ago she was just sort of shimmy-snaking, now it's a full on, on the knees crawl. It's stinking cute. I put her in a little jumpsuit today that's sleeveless and knee length and when she tries to crawl her whole leg gets stuck until her foot is almost entirely inside her outfit. She tries so hard to keep going, until she stops, looks at me and lets out a lengthy baby sigh. I fix it, then she just keeps on going. So far she hasn't gottin into anything crazy, she knocked over Kelso's food and water bowls the other day, that was fun clean up, and she has become obsessed with any wire that is in sight. that's it for now, I'm sure they'll be something else to watch for tomorrow.

I have finally gotten the courage to do the 'cry out method'. I always hated the idea of it and it makes me so sad, but it got to the point where putting her to sleep took forever! Since Chelle's house is nice and spacious, I could feed her, burp her, give her a little rock and lay her down, leave the room and be downstairs where I could kind of hear her, but not have my ear drums blown to bits by her cries. It sucked the first few days. She did ok with naps, took her 20-30 minutes to fall asleep, but bed time was like death for her. She cried for an hour the first night before I finally gave in and gave her some bottle, She took two ounces and was out. Now it's 5-10 minutes for a nap and maybe 30 for bedtime. That's a relief. That was rough stuff right there. Thanks to Chelle and Brig for words of comfort, it was nice that they were literally right there to help me feel better. Chris was very comforting too, I shouldn't leave him out :)

When she does fall asleep though it's usually with her legs tucked under her belly and her little bum in the air, it's a pretty cute sight.

She loves paper. Like, loves to eat paper. Any time I go to the store I have to somehow hide my list so she doesn't take it when I'm not paying attention and swallow a big chunk of it. It's so funny, and slightly disgusting.

Her and Kelso are becoming best buddies. I love it. She snuggled up to him the other morning when I brought her into bed, as in straight up spooned him. He didn't even care, he used to hate it when she'd tug on his tail, now she can seriously drag him backwards by it and he just looks at her then licks her face. He's such a good dog, I love him too.

Chris has been working so much that when he comes home, she'll flail her arms as crazy and possible and bounces so much that her butt comes off the ground. She loves her dad. I love him too, he's a big time keeper. She is also only saying 'da-da-da-da-da' a bunch. I think he's her favorite.

She's become a mega snuggler with me when she's sleepy. There have been a bunch of instances in the past month when I rock her she'll rub against my shoulder and fall asleep. It's my current favorite.

Alright, that's currently all I can think of for the latest Zuri goodness. I forgot her little book that I write all this stuff down in so I figure I'll let everyone else know how dang awesome she is. Chris has been awesome too, he's been working like crazy these past few weeks he's gone by 8 or 9 and doesn't get home until 8 or 9. He's probably exhausted all the time. I miss him, I guess this is how real life is when people work full time jobs. Makes our part time jobs feel like gold :)

Well, that's it for now. hope everyone is having a dainty summer time!