Uni B.

Ms. Cutie Patootie, who we also sometimes call Uni B, has some updating to do on her progress. First off, as of yesterday, on her 10 month birthday, Una has a new tooth! it is her upper right tooth and it looks huge! She's still not crawling, but is getting closer and closer every day. She is, however, standing a lot and can do so holding on to ones hands. i've been letting her cruise the sofas while spotting her of course. The hardest thing so far has been just letting her take a few small bumps and falls to teach her, hopefully, not to let herself fall. She's also been babbling alot, playing peek-a-boo, and generally being a happy little kid who is really into books. Especially the sign language books i got Ted for christmas. She loves those. Oh, and the other really cute thing that we started doing was throwing a soft block back and forth to each other. Patty gave me the idea to try it. It's amazing how fast they get the concept. Una's funny about it. She gets all coyishly put out about the whole thing.

We had a well visit with the doctor last month, and Una now weighs 16 lbs 10.5 oz. and is 28" long. The doc said he's happy with her progress, but due to Una having an aversion to solid foods, he recommends that we go to a speech pathologist to help her get over, perhaps, a bad association with food. She seems to do fine with most baby food from a jar, but it's the mashed up foods that she has a problem with. so, we'll see how that goes.