First Easter!

Hayden celebrated her first Easter this past weekend. She had a great time. She really enjoyed shaking her eggs. She's been getting more brave with standing and taking steps but still likes to hold on. She has been very fussy the past few nights but we are not sure if she will finally get more teeth, or if she is just mad that we are settling down rather than playing.

11 Months

Okay, we feel like we just posted and here it is a month later and time for a new post! Hayden has been doing well standing on her own. She balances really well. And she will stand up by herself with no assistance sometimes. She has taken a few steps but overall she doesn't seem real interested in trying. She will pull herself up on things, and cruise, but seems happy just crawling around. This weekend she started to bear crawl a little.
She still only has her two bottom teeth. We can see ridges all along her bottom gums but none have broken through. She seems to have been growing them since January, and hopefully they will just all break through at once.
Hayden is eating more "people food" these days and of course loves grapes. She's been doing well with most of the foods we give her. We saw the Easter Bunny this weekend and Hayden did not enjoy sitting without Mommy (or Daddy). We did get a decent one of the girls on the Bunny's lap, though.
Hayden's hair is getting longer, and is still red. It is a really pretty shade, especially against her blue eyes.

Forgot to mention: Hayden also gives great kisses. We will ask for a kiss and she will come in for a kiss, all puckered up, and then give multiple kisses! Very sweet.

10 Months

Hayden is 10 months old!! She is just motoring around everywhere now. She really likes when we "chase" her. She will start crawling, then turn to make sure someone is coming, and then go again, laughing all the way. She absolutely loves it. She and Jordyn will play, and Jordyn will crawl and let Hayden chase her. Then when Hayden gets close Jordyn will turn on her and tickle her. A few weeks ago they were chasing eachother around Boppy and Grandma's dining table and Jordyn is much faster so Hayden figured out if she turned to go back the way she came she'd actually catch Jordyn. She did this a few times, so it was not just a fluke.
Hayden of course is cruising and pulling herself up everywhere. She is even brave enough to let go and can balance for seconds at a time. She will sometimes let go and try to turn to move away from wherever she has pulled herself up on, and also likes holding our hands to walk, though she does get frustrated and gets down to crawl.
We have started to give Hayden "real" food, too. She really wants to be eating like us. She likes bread and french fries (something we never would have done with Jordyn), but is not impressed with eggs so far. We think we see some more teeth lurking beneath the surface, but are still waiting.

Finally

Last Tuesday Hayden went in for her 9 month checkup. She now weighs 16 lbs 13 oz and was measured at 26 inches. She is just motoring along. She is teething, and from the looks of it her bottom eye teeth are coming in which we find funny since she only has her bottom two teeth, not all four. Other than that she is right on track. She is trying to stand on everything, and she is starting to take a stand when Jordyn takes a toy from her. She is also starting to go after toys that Jordyn starts to play with.

9 months old!

So we are a little late posting this but the girls have been really sick. Both girls have had respiratory viruses and ear infections. In the process we have discovered that she is allergic to penicillin just like her sister! So, Hayden has not been able to get her 9 months stats yet. She will go next week.
In the meantime, though, Hayden has been doing so much! She is really getting up and crawling, and pulling herself up. She prefers to pull herself up on us then hang out holding our hands. Or she will bounce/dance and do a few bends to sit down.
Hayden is also doing her "So Big" move with her hands up above her head, and then she immediately claps.
As for words, she is saying dada more. Not sure if its meant to call Daddy or not. She will throw in mama every now and then, and is making all other sorts of incoherent sounds like gagaga, etc. Hayden does, however, have a turtle toy that she really likes and when we are playing with it Lauren will tell Hayden it is a "turtle" and Hayden repeats "to to"! It might just be mimicking but hey, we are impressed!
And of course she is loving dropping her toy so that someone will pick it up for her. She knows to say "uh oh" when the toy drops, too. Thank goodness Jordyn seems to enjoy picking up her toy and giving it back to her. The girls have found a way to play together!

Last weekend we went to Sea World. Hayden absolutely loved the manatee exhibit. The viewing area was under the water where we could see the manatees and other fish. She just laughed and laughed. Hayden had a great time at Sea World and was sooo good!
We forgot to mention in the last post that she has been waving to people. Its so cute, we will pass a mirror and she will wave to herself. Her second tooth is breaking now on the bottom. We can't tell if there are any more because she does not want us checking.
She is also just so mobile, its great. The second one of us leave the room, there's Hayden coming along! Now she's able to go after Jordyn when she has something Hayden wants :) This weekend she was doing a bunny hop. She'd get up on all fours, then hop forward with her knees/legs and then move forward with her arms. It was so cute!

8 months old!

Hayden is 8 months old! One bottom tooth poked out about two weeks ago and we were hoping to be able to post that she had a tooth but she is a slow teether and it is still about halfway out. She was pretty uncomfortable this past weekend and it looks like a few more are moving to the surface so we might just get a bunch at once. The one next to it is ready to break Here's a photo.
Hayden is getting around still by rolling and army crawling backwards, and she can scoot forward a bit. She will get up on all fours and sort of rock but then fall but she is building up her strength. She also really wants to pull herself up. She enjoys holding our hands and pulling herself into a standing position and just hanging out.
She is absolutely dazzled by Jordyn, she cannot keep her eyes and head from following her big sister, and smiles and laughs whenever Jordyn talks to her.
Hayden started meats last month and really took to beef and turkey. Over Christmas her appetite was huge, we thought she put on 2 pounds between Christmas Eve and New Years, even our daycare provider noticed. She's getting ready to grow and move, and needed the energy! She has now moved to one 2 hour nap during the day but still sometimes wakes up at night.
Hayden just loves to smile. She is such an easy-going kid. Her hair is getting longer, it now gets sort of stuck on her ear so we have to push it behind her ear, and it is still a lovely red. Her favorite toys are baby dolls. She tries to take Jordyn's Barney when she can and she has sort of taken one of Jordyn's babies, but since Jordyn has so many she doesn't notice. It almost seems like Hayden is talking to her baby, she coos and makes noises and smiles and laughs while holding baby and chewing on whatever part she can.