So Big.....

The other day I read Jenn's blog and she had a statement about how songs have a different meaning when you have a child. I completely agree. I was traveling to Winston to work last week and the song "Arms Wide Open" by Creed was playing. I have never really listened to the words, I just know I liked the song. As I was listening and singing along tears started streaming down my face. I thought of Matti and how much love I have for her. Sometimes I just sit at night and rock her knowing that if I put her down she would be off to sleep in her crib, but now that she is so mobile she does not want to cuddle as much so I just sit back enjoy watching her sleep, stoke her hair, kiss her face, and tell her how much mommy loves her. It is amazing how much love you can have for a child. She melts my heart!
Now on to less mushy things-
Matti has continued to keep Matthew and I busy by crawling. She wants to explore to whole house. We cannot keep her still now that she is mobile. We just follow her around and let her take it all in. Last night she was in the kitchen, sitting in the floor watching me make her bottles so I reached in the cabinet pulled out a old metal bowl and a wooden spoon. She really liked playing with those. She would bang the spoon on the bowl to make noise and then of course chew on the spoon for a while.
Here is a few clips of Matti crawling and exploring. A few were cut short due to keeping her safe from popping her head.


Matti decided to crawl through her Entertainer!






Matti has been pulling up on everything. You can even sometimes hear her straining to grunting to pull herself up. She is starting to also learn how to get back down without falling. We have had a few times where she has tumbled over and bumped her head or popped her mouth, but for the most part she has great balance.

Here is a clip of Matti playing in her toy box.



Matti still does not have any teeth, but she seems to be teething. She is drooling more, refusing more bottles, and tends to pull her ears a lot. I wondered about a earache, but she acts if everything is okay and does not seem sick. I read ear pulling is most of the time contributed to teething. Hopefully we will have some pearly whites soon. I cannot imagine what she will look like with teeth.
I really have never seen Matti interact with other children until yesterday when I dropped her off at school. Normally, when I take her in her class I put her in the entertainer, but since there were too many babies in her normal class I had to take her next door to the 9month - 1 year old class. Some of the children in there Matti knows from her class. Shana one of her friends was sitting quietly in the floor across the room. Matti noticed her right off and I put Matti on the floor she crawled straight over to Shana and started babbling, giggling, and patting Shana on the leg. Shana is not much of a morning person and looked and Matti and started crying. I picked Matti up and took her over to the toy box and let her choose a toy to play with so she would leave Shana alone. It was so cute to see her interact though. It made me tear up a little. My baby is growing up.

Here are a few pictures.
Nana and papa built Matti a swing-it really puts her to sleep!!! I guess mommy and daddy will have to put one up for her

Here is another pic of Matti and her fuzzy friends!

Matti peaking out the window at Dada mowing the yard!