It's Christmastime!

You'll find some latest pictures marked 12-2 over there. She's been a busy girl the last several weeks. Fighting a nasty ear infection which she handled very well all things considered. She didn't like the antibiotics, but the idea of her ear drum bursting if it didn't heal quick enough was scary to me so we kept at it. You'll see a couple pictures of her naked. She had to air dry a bit to help the awful diaper rash heal (which she got from the anti-biotics), but she loved the naked sun time. We cut a Christmas tree over Thanksgiving weekend up at the Ranch and she likes to be up there. She likes to stand/kneal and lean on the couch arm to look at some of the decorations and we like making her part of other decorations! She's not sitting on her own yet, but likes the view when she's propped. We had her in her booster seat to eat oatmeal tonight and she did really well there too. She still loves the peanut shell sling, and it's very handy when she wants to be held and watch things at the same time.

We noticed a suspicious white dot on her gums on Dec 1 and as of today, her first tooth has finally busted through the gums. It's just starting to "erupt" but it's definitely a tooth. It's her front, bottom, right one and it's poking out of her gums, it doesn't seem to bother her, but she's definitely chewing on her fingers, our fingers, my shoulder, and anything else she can get into her mouth. Doesn't like a cold wash rag or anything like that yet, and she's not fussy at all about it either. To me it seems to be coming slowly, but what do I know. It will be fun to monitor it's progress over the next days/weeks and hopefully we'll be able to capture it on camera for you soon. It's hard enough for us to see it now with her tongue constantly out in the way!