Molars and food

Last week was a rough week for Lauren. She was really fussy, had a low grade fever, her eyes were watering, and her nose was runny (although this last one has been kind of a permanent state since she was 4 months old!). It turns out that she was getting more teeth; the first of her molars finally poked through early last week. So she's up to 9 teeth now and I think a few more molars are on the way. At the rate she's going, she's going to be close to 12 teeth by the time she's 12 months old! Poor little thing. What's kind of funny though is that her molars are coming in before her eye teeth, so she's going to have a little "gap" for a while in her smile.

We've been trying to give Lauren more table food for a while, but she tends to reject it. The other night she got in trouble because she was just throwing her little bits of turkey burger and bun on the floor. She was crying as she really does not like to be told no, and her big sister Alyssa was very protective of her during this, kind of like why are you making my little sister cry.

It's been a little frustrating that she wont' eat more because she's totally got the teeth to do so, but she just likes to eat her food pureed or eat her starches (puffs, cheerios, etc.). But we've discovered lately if you give her big pieces/hunks of food, she'll happily take bites and chew it up. This has now happened with watermelon, cheese, and bananas. Aren't the pictures kind of funny of her eating these "big" things?







Now that the weather has been nicer, we've been going out for ice cream every once in a while. I wanted to go out on Mother's Day so we went to the ice cream shoppe in downtown Ada - Scoops. She really enjoyed the bites of my ice cream. Aaron took the girls for sundaes while I was out of town and then we stopped last night as well while we were out and about. Alyssa and I shared a strawberry & cherry sundae and Aaron got his own chocolate and caramel sundae. Since I was sharing with Alyssa, Aaron had Lauren on his lap. She was so insistent on eating the ice cream; she got very upset if Aaron took a bite or gave a bite to Alyssa. He tried to put her down to move around (she'd had plenty of ice cream) and she threw a fit - she wanted more ice cream I think we have another girl with a sweet tooth in the house! Lauren is quite fiesty at times, when she wants something, she doesn't want to be told no.

She's continuing to try to walk around more. With both her walker and when holding to your fingers with both hands, she's running around. And she's now walking holding on to only one hand too. It might not be too long, but we shall see. She looks so proud of herself when she's getting around on her feet. She's doing better climbing up stairs, she can do it but often doesn't push herself. I'm trying to decide if we're not pushing her as much to be independent (you know, the poor second child) or if this just part of her personality. Time will tell. In the meantime we're just going to enjoy all the smiles she sends our way.