It's been a long, long time. I'm hoping to add more posts this weekend showing Annika's first Christmas, our California trip, 7 and 8 month updates, etc. We have just been really busy and having a lot of fun! Unfortunately, we haven't taken as many pictures or videos as we should have, and by the time we realize we should capture something Annika's doing, she's often moved on to something else. I tried to rectify that this morning with my trusty phone camera. Annika is SO close to crawling, and I wanted to catch some of her pre-mastery attempts. (It was right before she took her nap, hence the fussiness.)
I realize that grainy, poorly-lit videos of a baby wiggling around are not everyone's idea of fun (I've watched some myself and lamented that I'd never get those minutes of my life back), so consider yourself warned.
Witness her backwards scooting skills:
See her start to move into a sitting position here. We didn't know she knew how to do this, until we went to get her out of her crib one morning this week and found her sitting up and playing.
She's moving backwards, side to side, up on her knees, and even trying to move forward on her toes. She is now starting to get frustrated -- surely, crawling must be coming soon!
Oh, and did I mention that she's started saying mama? It's very exciting. She mispronounces it, but that's ok -- after all, she is a baby.
