She's crawling....

Backwards that is! :) How frustrating when you want to go forward but your body takes you the wrong way. Our little cheeky-monkey is on her way to crawling.. oh boy! She gets on all fours and revs her body back and forth but so far she's stuck in reverse. She's rolling like a maniac though so she certainly gets around.

A few days after tooth #1 poked through, #2 started to surface so now she has both bottom teeth. She slept pretty well last night (only up twice) so hopefully her teething pain isn't so bad anymore.. I wonder if it hurts just as they're breaking through, then not as much? 

I have so many cute pictures of her lately! 

She's trying new foods.. so far bananas and sweet potato along with her rice cereal. I'm going to try making organic peas at home tomorrow, then next time, green beans. I can't wait until we get to sample Matt's garden! 

She doesn't really eat very much yet and we stop when she gets fussy. She's so independent and wants to jam the spoon into her own mouth, despite gagging herself over and over again. I can't wait until we move onto soft finger foods that she can pick up on her own. (I guess that's when the food flinging really starts!)

We were up until after 11:00 at Crista's birthday party last weekend.. Maddie is quite the party animal!

Her newest trick! Wow she's flexible! Yum!

Her 6 month photo "Hey, Forget about it!"

Maddie and her handsome daddy!... How lucky am I?

We Have A Toofy!!!

That's baby-talk for a "tooth"!  Yay!!

Maddie was being a bit of a crabbie-pants two days ago and I felt into her mouth. Sure enough, there are little ridges poking through from her bottom right tooth. Aw, poor baby! Last night was a little rough as I could tell it was hurting her. She would wake up and wine, then fall back asleep. She didn't sleep a wink during the day yesterday so she was super over-tired BUT we got through it and hopefully she'll be better in the next few days (until the next little bugger shows up). We stayed home from our play date today so mom and baby could catch up on some sleep. I LOVE napping with her. It doesn't happen often now that she's in her crib. Which by the way is going great! I still get up 3-4 times a night but she almost always has a 4-5 hour stretch at some point. Now we're working on getting to only one time, but that will have to wait until the teething pain is gone.

For now it's sucking on cool washcloths and Tylenol before bed. Any other mommy suggestions?