Got Milk?

This morning we were officially given the go ahead to give Hannah milk. She has been down to nursing twice a day and her doctor wanted me to give her either formula which she hated- in fact would throw the sippy cup away, or yogurt or cottage cheese.

When we got to the point that she was eating yogurt at just about every meal I knew something had to give.

Well, today she talked milk for the first time and LOVED it! I was so relieved. However, we did learn some lessons today, the most important being that milk is only a meal time beverage from now on. This pronouncement comes down as a result of milk being spilled all over my kitchen floor. At least it is hard wood and cleans easily! Hannah likes to carry her drinks wherever she goes and then just drops them when she is distracted. Result: milk spills everywhere. There is one resident of this house that does not mind this eventuality in the least- that would be Draca- my little milk fiend who knows what opening the door to the refrigerator means. She loudly meows until either the milk is given to her or the fridge door closes.

The downside to my cleanup crew is that she does not get up the stickiness that the milk leaves behind, so I am going to mop my floor tonight and henceforth milk is a highchair only beverage.

Little Joys

This has been a particularly special morning because I have gotten to spend it with my sweet little girl! In the time since she woke up- which was later than usual (yay! Mommy got to sleep in!!) she has, with pleasure wrecked the the Living Room and the Kitchen.

She ate a very big breakfast and kept saying "Nom nom" and pointing to the cereal- I can only assume that she wants more because when I reach for it and give it too her she grins ear to ear and bounces up and down in her seat.

She has also begun to enjoy feeding others as well, whoever is closest to her at the time- this of course includes dogs and cats. This morning I was the one closest to her and I was fed cereal from her hand. She gets so tickled when I take the Cheerio from her fingers.

After she finished eating she found a dish rag on the ground and decided that was what she wanted to play with for the next few minutes, so she carried it around like a blanket, snuggling it as she walked around.

Then she proceeded to push all my kitchen chairs into the Living Room making a noise akin to nails on a chalk board (thinking I should put some fleece on the bottoms of the chairs so that they do not make that noise when they are moved) She does enjoy it so!

When she got bored with moving the chairs, or maybe just sick of the sound, she decided to move my Tea Cart which I had previously had to empty off when I discovered that she was capable of moving it! It is currently sitting in the middle of my kitchen.

She also pulled out all of my Mac and Cheese boxes from the container they were sitting in. She enjoyed shaking the boxes and hearing the noodles- I think I should make her a Rain stick! The cutest part of this incident was that she tried to put all the boxes back in the container! Some of them made it back in. :)

As you can probably imagine, she is pretty tired by this point and not exactly listening to what I am telling her. She discovered how to remove the outlet covers from the outlets and after having to thump her hand several times I gave up and put duct tape over the outlet and outlet covers. It is completely unsightly, but my baby is safer this way.

So finally I let her take her nap. I rock her for a few minutes (with Monkey, of course) and several times while I am rocking and humming to her she puts her arm around my neck and kissing my face! It was the sweetest thing! And between kisses she was humming along with me.

Now, completely exhausted she is sound asleep for her morning nap and Mommy is going to do the same.