lately

i feel like in this last month we have seen so much change in brennan. she is interacting with us more; she's figuring out what makes us laugh and repeats those actions, she's discovered her tongue and plays with it and 'talks' constantly, she'll crawl up to my feet and pull my legs until i pick her up, she's discovering her favorite toys, she's cruising around our coffee table and i swear she'll start walking tomorrow, she's ticklish... this is just SUCH fun stage of raising a kiddo.

and finally, FINALLY, she is sleeping through the night. glory.

many times during the day b crawls herself over to the window to watch sophie play outside. baby tv.

rather than enjoying her jumper the way that most babies do, the normal way, brennan loves to crawl underneath it and play with the toys from below.

and drumroll please: we finally have our first tooth! it took two terrible nights of the poor thing in so much pain, but it finally broke through. i am so thankful that they don't remember this stage... so sad. one tooth down... 31 to go

do you see it poking through?

and these next pictures stem from an impromptu photo shoot this afternoon and i just couldn't narrow it down to 1.

she's gotta get used to having a camera stuck in her face.

keep in mind i started with about 50, so i'm proud of my limiting abilities.

b is now pulling herself up on everything. SO strong

this might seem like a silly picture to include, but it makes me laugh. i took the picture right as she was falling over and i captured her right as she was toppling over and letting out a high pitched laugh as she fell. look at that smile!

she gnaws on everything.

and just LOOK at how beautiful those baby blues are