Houston We've Got A Walker

Gabby's officially off and not looking back.  Once she got the balance thing down she started walking and hasn't stopped since.  We even try to hold out our hands to help her over something or down a slope and we're batted away because she's such a big girl and wants to do it all on her own :)
She's now loving being outside walking because she can go anywhere and explore.  Now that the weather has cooled down we will have a fun fall exploring the outdoors.

Here's a video of her walking outside on 8/20/12:

Where has the time gone???

My little is growing so quickly before my eyes.  Within days she went from sitting to crawling to standing to almost walking!  She's currently taken her first steps but isn't walking on her own yet.  She's what we like to call 'cruising' and walking along all the furniture.

At her 9 month check up everything was as it should be.  She weighed in at 18 1/2 pounds.  We've had our first pool and water park experience and she LOVES the water.  She has no fear which is a little scary.  Watching her splash and play is just so fun and brings joy to my heart.

She's also very chatty and likes to use her vocal chords quite often.  She's saying MOM and DA and NUM for food.  Just this week she started waiving HI and BYE to us and it's just so darn cute.

Here are some video's and pics:

A girls best friend

Gabby found a BFF in Carlo.  She was holding his hand for several minutes while she played and I got some pics:

And here's her 8 month shots:



Gabby's 8 Months Today!

Sorry I've been lagging behind on the posts.  We've had a lot going on these past few months!  Our little Gabbers is growing up right in front of our eyes.  In the last post she had her first tastes of food and now she's a little eating machine.  I've been making all her food with our Baby Bullet and she LOVES fruits (of course she has a sweet tooth).  She loves her sweet potato's and banana's the best.  She even actually downed the asparagus I made for her!  And now I see her first little tooth budding through.  It's on her top in the front.  She's been taking it pretty good.

Gabby is a pro at rolling now - all over our floor.  She can get where she needs to go by rolling her way across a room and of course she sits up all by herself.  She's working her way to crawling.  She'll get up on all fours and kind of balance but hasn't made progress forward or backwards yet.

Gabby's new thing is to try lay on her side posing.  She's really trying to get into the sitting position from laying down but ends up posing instead:

Here are some photo's from over the last month or two and some cure video's

Video:

Little Miss Piggy

Our little Gabbers had her first taste of real food yesterday.  She's been eating rice cereal for about a month now and that was going so well we're introducing veggies.  I'm going to wait to introduce the fruit since mom has such a sweet tooth i'm sure Gabs will get it and won't want to eat her veggies once she tastes the extra sugary sweetness of fruit ;)
Here's Gabby's first taste of some carrots:

Mommy got an iPhone and has been experimenting with some cool photo apps and of course Gabby is my subject so here are some new pictures:

Eating some carrots

Probably one of my favorite pictures ever!  She wore herself out on her jump-a-roo and fell asleep jumping!

My Happy Girl!

She LOVED Daddy's hat!

Aunt Livi playing with her Gabs

TWINS with Grandma!

Just plain ole cutie patootie

5 Months!

Our little Gabber Doll is already 5 Months Old!!!  Time is flying by!  Month 4 brought a lot of firsts for Gabby.  First time rolling over, first cereal, first time grandpa changed a diaper, first time getting to meet Uncle Derek (who she took an immediate liking to), first time mommy left for an overnight, first full time daycare and first time fully transferred to her crib.  She's growing and developing at the speed of light.  On 2/1 she was 14 lbs 11 oz. and 25" long.  She's doing really well in all her percentiles (in the 60-70% range).  She loves talking to people and hearing her own voice.  She's blowing bubbles or 'raspberries' as the doc calls them.  Her new favorite thing is grabbing her feet and putting anything into her mouth that she possibly can. 

Gabby's first experience with cereal:

Grandpa changing diapers:

Here's Gabby chatting it up with Uncle Derek (she's telling him to come visit more often):