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July, 2008

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Jul 08

Pre-Crawling. Hooray!

Oona is now mobile.

A few days ago she dragged herself from one end of the long black couch to the other. Just now she made a heroic effort to get from one end of her play mat all the way to the other in order to grab a *ohshitIgottachildproofthishouserightaway* bag of zip ties. I quickly replaced the zip ties with a little toy cow, just out of reach. She screamed. And scritched. And threw her little tushie in the air with her legs moving like a little frog. And she somehow managed to slide about 2 inches. Just enough for one little hand to reach out and grab the cow and pull it in to herself.

I burst out cheering and congratulating her and clapping with all my might — I think I startled her with the commotion cause she looked up at me with worry, but then a HUGE grin overtook her face as she realized that I was cheering for her!

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Jul 08

She kissed me!

I play this game with Oona daily which I call Kiss Attack. I say “I’m… going… to… kissyourcheeks” and kiss her cheeks really fast on both sides. She squeals and looks like she can’t stand it she’s so happy.

So the last few times I played Kiss Attack with her, I saw that she kept trying to get me back. So yesterday I let her. She grabbed my hair and pulled my face to her, opened her mouth wide, and just pressed her mouth up against my cheek and held it… A big wet, slimy, licky kiss from my cheek up to my eye.

Aww, Oona, I love you!

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Jul 08

Thanks Auntie Tracy, I love the chair!!!

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14
Jul 08

Still working on all those ooooooh’s!

This weekend we had the Smoochdomers over for drinks and they loved practicing oooooh’s with Oona! Behind the scenes in this photo, there were about 6 adults all going Ooooooooh!

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12
Jul 08

Woo hoo!

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12
Jul 08

Getting ready for Burning Man

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10
Jul 08

Working on Crawling

I think she may have it soon, though it’s supposedly way too early… But she can prop herself up on her elbows, and she’s moving her knees in and out… She BADLY wants to move around. I am certainly in no rush!

Oh, and this weekend she started to suck her thumb. CUTE.

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10
Jul 08

Pacifier in. Pacifier out. Pacifier… almost. got. it. just. about. in…

The last few days Oona’s been working on getting that pacifier back in her mouth after she takes it out. Sometimes she hits her eye, sometimes her cheek, sometimes she starts crying as her hand gets caught between her mouth and the pacifier… But occasionally, and somewhat more regularly, it is actually ending up IN her mouth again. *slurp slurp*

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9
Jul 08

Learning to Say “Oooooooh!”

Today was the first time Oona seemed to really understand talking… She learned to put her lips together in a little O shape, and imitated her Nana over and over again.

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