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Bumps and bruises

It is amazing what a difference a few months make. It has officially been nearly three months since my last post and our lives have changed immensely since late November. Not only has my daughter received numerous bumps and bruises while growing and changing but she is a completely different baby. I hesitate to say child or person because that means she is growing up and I need to take baby steps before I say that!

In these 3 months, Adelina has experienced her first Christmas which we were able to spend at home. Granted it was 3 days of entertaining but it was still a Christmas at home with family and close friends! And we loved every minute of it. We also had our first New Years eve, it was very exciting... I think we were all in bed by 1030!

When Adelina started crawling (around 8 months or so) our lives changed immensely. The days of sitting her down and watching her play were officially over. With each change of these major changes/events comes more and more of a personality and interest in all of the new things around her. It's so much fun to watch her crawl around the house and realize when she hasn't seen something or touched something before. It definitely means we are watching like hawks but its seriously so great to watch her discover new items and places in our house. Her new favorite is the bathtub... admittedly not the best place for her to play but she does find it fun right now.

With all of this crawling has come bumps and bruises galore. At one point she took a fall at daycare and came home with this amazing bruise on her cheek that we swear took almost a month to go away. We realized after countless comments at Home Depot and other places that we were pretty sure people thought we were beating her. Not awesome, but I suppose with you go to Home Depot with a bruised baby and looking to buy all of the items for patching a hole in the wall... it might be easy to come to that conclusion (oopsies).

Luckily now that my little miss is becoming more stable in her movements the bumps and bruises are less frequent. Walking is in our future though and I imagine that will bring a whole new meaning to bumps and bruises.