The Mouse Family Blog

Look at those teeth! Lauren has been an eruption of teething these last few weeks. She broke ground with her bottom two front teeth at the tender age of 5 months. And then we didn't have anymore until just a few weeks ago, the top right one came in. It's next door neighbor (also on the right) came along a week later. On the plane ride home from Florida I discovered another one on the bottom, and today we have the just barely through the gum appearance of two more on top (left front and it's lefty neighbor). That brings her teeth count to 7!!

Other development news is her increase in mobility and verbal skills. She has fully emerged into a the baby babble stage...where it seems like she talks in her own language. She says several words with meaning: mama, dada, woof, duck and ducky, hat, papa, book and plop. She understands several commands like "hug" "give me - " "where's -" and you insert the name of an object she knows like blue puppy, Tigger, block, giraffe, etc. She knows what we mean when we say "no touch" but she usually doesn't comply ;) She will try to parrot back words, especially ones she hasn't heard before.

She is such a good eater. She eats anything we put in front of her and is getting better at her dexterity. She likes to "walk" holding onto the sofa, chairs and fingers. We wish she was a better sleeper. It seems like she only wants to sleep 9 hours at night, which is cramping my (Liz's) style. My style being the one where I want to sleep until 7am. I didn't even get up before 7am when I had a paid job. Oh well, it's not much of a burden since Lauren is so much fun to play with these days. The next update will be the big one-year-old! It's shocking how fast the first year has gone. But Lauren is certainly a huge blessing and we are so thankful she is happy and healthy.

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