Just reading back over a few of my most recent posts. Since they have been so sporadic, I've realized that I've been terrible on keeping you all up to date on Kendall. She is of course a baby and therefore accomplishing new feats every day.
Kendall has been sitting up on her own for quite a while (6 months). She is very strong. She can roll over and keep her balance on her hands and knees but WON'T. That's right ... she's somewhat lazy. Not because she's content to just sit, but because she wants to be where the action is. She wants to walk like her big brother and the rest of us. She has no interest in crawling - she wants to simply go straight to walking and is happiest being supported under her arms and allowed to "walk" wherever she fancies. She also wants to be up where the action is ... none of this laying on the floor stuff. She is always happy up in the arms of someone who will carry her wherever they go (believe me, she is very demanding of this). I think the church nursery workers take shifts carrying her around all morning.
Kendall is quite vocal. She has a great set of lungs. She has expanded her vocabulary from "ma ma" to include "gran-ma", "uh-oh", "O" (Cole) and "Elmo". She definitely knows the latter. She can spot Elmo from the other side of the room, pick out his voice on a CD and recognize his likeness anywhere. Pretty sure his 2 biggest fans live at our house.
Kendall has also picked up some dance moves. Her big brother loves music, dancing and singing. Kendall has acquired a side to side sway and a head bop (I'm pretty sure those are not official terms in choreography). She breaks out spontaneously to any tune that motivates her. I'm trying very hard to capture this on video.
Monkey see, monkey do would definitely describe our little girl. She is definitely good a mimicking gestures and sounds. You should hear her and her daddy growl at each other. She waves hello with or without visual or verbal prompting and for a short stint clapped her hands.
At almost 8 and a half months, Kendall still has no teeth. She still eats mush. She loves cereal and fruit, but vegetables ... not so much. I usually sneak bites of veggies in between spoonfuls of the stuff she likes. I need to keep it random though or she catches on. She's one smart cookie. She had her first rice crackers this week in the nursery. She eats them so systematically and with hardly any mess that its almost fancinating to watch.
This is no achievement, but I'm pretty sure she has the longest tongue ever. She can stick it out with a perfect point and lick the bottom of her chin.
I'm sure there's more that I'm forgetting but I think that gets you caught up.
She's a pretty cool kid. I'm in love.
