Baby Has a New Pair of Shoes

Makena had a great week last week. She is growing leaps and bounds...my Angel Baby is growing up! On Sunday we had Family Covenant Day at Church. All the babies that was born within the last year were presented with their first Bible. What a special day for Mak Mak!

Her latest thing is when she walks towards you she does it with such enthusiasm. Her little nose wrinkles and she smiles with her mouth WIDE open. VERY CUTE. Since she is walking so much better, I bought her first pair of walking shoes yesterday. We walked in tried on a pair and she stood up than crouched down and pointed at them...stood back up smiled, took two steps and fell on her belly. After a couple of falls she quickly figured out how shoes worked! I have a video clip...please note, I am not laughing at the end because I think it is funny she fell. I was just excited and proud of her. Click Here to see the video.

Teething...we have ahd several false alarms recently with teething. I do believe she is really getting a tooth now. She is definately drooling more and has a serious lump on her bottom gums. Low grade fever and yucky diapers are a dead giveaway too!

Check out the pics below:

Smiling and Babbling and Walking...OH MY!

Makena has been extremely happy lately! She shrieks at almost anything and just looking at her makes her smile so big! She is getting to be a big girl. I can't believe we are just shy of 2-1/2 months to her first birthday. I am so depressed...I don't want my baby girl to grow up. It seems that she wants nothing to do with crawling anymore...she has within a day learned how to get up on her own unsupported and prefers to walk instead. She is looking less and less like Frankenstein each day and more and more like a little person walking about like she owns the place (eh, who are we kidding, she owns the place). She went to the ENT on Friday, she has still an ear infection in her left ear, which means the tube he placed in there is blocked still. She is on another set of ear drops to clear it up. SOON I HOPE! As of right now, she is not hearing properly out of her left ear...doesn't mean she has hearing loss necessarily. We will know for sure in about 6 months. Other than that, nothing more to report. Here are the pictures of her 9th month.

"Even in the wee hours of the early morning, mommy tries to take my picture in the dark...I am not happy!"

Can someone please tell me how to sleep like a baby???

Not Much...

Not much to really report...Makena is walking EVERYWHERE and she looks like Frankenstein doing it. She is still using her arms to balance herself so they are usually held straight out in front of her.

Here are a few pics...enjoy!

Walking...talking...and SEPARATION ANXIETY!!!

Makena has become much more confident in her walking abilities. She can most definately balances herself while standing and she can walk clear across the living room. Very cute to watch...she takes these tiny steps and sometimes she will take steps in place before she takes off again. Talking?? Well she is babbleing a lot. Her language use to consist of "guh...guh.." or "uuh...uuh..." now she is all about the babababa...mamamamama...dadadadada and my favorite ayayayayaya! Those tubes sure have made a difference. We went to Texarkana this weekend to visit Justin's parents and ever since we have been home she has had some serious separation anxiety. I think that is why she hasn't been going to sleep on her own very well. She cries for longer periods of time now, but rocking her is out of the question because she would rather play. If she hadn't had tubes put in, my inital thought would have been an ear infection based on her behavior.

Not much else to report...I have pics but the camera is in Makena's room and she is asleep...can't wake her. I will post them later.

Faith didn't come yesterday as planned. She had a double ear infection!! My poor baby Faith. I really miss her to pieces. Hopefully she will be here today.

Makena and I spent the day together...we went to Cingular Wireless store to try and fix my new phone. There has been nothing but problems since I got it...hmmm, is this a sign?? Then we went to Discount Tire to put tires on our new Jeep Grand Cherokee...mind you it is used, but new to us. Speaking of which I need to call my Farmers Agent...Uncle Steve and his Office Manager....Aunt Cassie to add the new veichle to our policy. Should anyone who reads this in the Dallas area and you need an insurance and financial services agent call Vuong Insurance Agency at 972-416-5355. Uncle Steve, you can pay me later for the plug...just kidding :)

Thats about all there is for now. Maybe something real exciting will happen today.

She's w-a-l-k...almost!

Tubes has made the world of a difference in her balance. So far she is doing well with them...after her procedure, Dr. Rohn came out and told us the infections were still there and that she would continue to have some drainage from both ears. Anyone whos child hasn't had this procedure done before...let me tell you, I was only separated from my baby girl for 20 min MAX! She was taken back at 6:48am and Dr. Rohn came out to discuss the procedure at 6:57am. When she woke up, the nurse in recovery came to get us. I walked back and she was drinking a bottle of COLD juice. She hates anything cold! I guess she was starving. She was a bit whiny and cranky...got her home and she had a nap and was to her old self by 10am. She had moments throughout the day where she would be a bit on the cranky side, but all in all she was really good!

She has certainly gained better balance since Friday. She takes up to 6 or 7 steps...usually its just 2-3 before she plops on her tushie. Sometimes she gets so excited that her body gets ahead of her legs. It is very sweet to watch. I bet she will be walking in a matter of days.

Well, not much else going on in our world. Faith is back today...YA!! We really do miss Faith when she is gone.

Click on the link below to see Makena walking.
Makena Walking

Been a few days...

On July 30th, Makena took two steps on her own. She just stood up and started to put one foot in front of the other. Of course I got so excited and she immediately fell on her belly. She has been trying to take steps here and there every since than. I am so proud of her! She is growing up too fast, but I am so excited that she can pick up on most things easily. Hopefully this means she will be a lot more coordinated than I am.

We went to see Dr. Rohn yesterday (her ENT) and discussed pre-op stuff. Signed paperwork, paid in advance for the surgery and then he looked into her ears. She had a pretty severe ear infection we discovered last Monday. Put her on antibiotics and yesterday she was on day 8 of a 10 day antibiotic. Dr. Rohn said they still looked really bad. They shouldn't look that way on 8 days of antibiotics. This confirms that we have made the right decision to go ahead with the procedure. He said after her surgery, he will provide us with antibiotic ear drops to help clear the current infection. Bless her heart, she should be in a lot of pain and really unhappy...but she's not! Happy as a lark for the most part. He told us that when we come to see him for her post-op appointment we will be surprised at the difference in her. She will be able to hear more clearly (they will do a hearing test that day) and if she is already trying to balance herself and has taken a few steps, tubes just might be what she needs to help her out with walking. WOW!

Yesterday she learned to wave bye bye. She actully holds her palms facing up and closes her fingers towards herself...I think most babies learn to wave like this. When she first did it, I don't think she realiezed she was saying bye-bye. Everytime she did it I would get really excited and wave back to her saying "bye-bye" and she has pretty much gotten that one down now. She is like a sponge...absorbes everything. Did I tell you about her fake coughing?? When she coughes, sometimes I will mimick her and then she forces herself to keep coughing. TOO CUTE!

Okay, thats all for now...should you ever need your printer fixed, please call Makena. Check the picture out below.