Food is Yummy!

I used to be a little better at keeping up with the posts, but after the holidays, it has been a struggle to get back to work and still manage to get everything accomplished!

Anyway, I am happy to report that Kaelyn is working on her "fine motor skills" and social development, while "gross motor skills" seem of little importance to her. In English, she likes to talk (and has even managed to say "mama") and is working on her pincer grab, but shows absolutely no interest in crawling or becoming mobile. Fine by me!

I guess the most recent development is that Kaelyn is learning to feed herself. It took a few days, and she would still rather have us shovel the Gerber puffs into her mouth, but she can do it herself. One of the first times we tried was at Rubio's, while Charley and I were eating fish tacos. Unfortunately for Rubio's, Kaelyn was not very skilled yet, so while she only managed to get one puff into her mouth, she spilled about 127 on the floor.

We took our first trip to the San Diego Zoo last week with Auntie Erin and Cousin Gracie. The girls were excellent and I am not sure what they thought of the animals, but they seemed interested enough. The flamingos seemed to be hit, as did the otters, but I am not so sure about the bigger animals. Oh, and Kaelyn fell asleep in the Panda enclosure, so I think those bored her.


She is getting bigger every day. We are no longer using the baby bath, and have upgraded to the duck bath and the bath ring. She is hysterical in the duck bath. She throws one arm over each side and just goes crazy splashing around in it. We have officially put away all of the 6 month clothes, the 6-9 month are getting snug, and we are diving right in to 9 month clothes, with the occasional 12 month. She continues to be fascinated by her toys, but has about a 5-10 minute attention span with any one particular toy. She is growing so fast, and I actually was thinking about plans for her first Birthday already.

Enjoy the pictures and video! The first video is Kaelyn feeding herself, and the bottom one is actually from 2 weeks ago when Charley started claiming his child is a genius because he taught her how to do this in about 2 minutes.