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Update:  Finger foods are going to be rough.  I think Mommy was a bit too excited to get her started and Bug was not grasping the concept.  However, we've made some progress and instead of shoveling food with her hands into her mouth, she is slowly learning to love the idea of using her index finger and her thumb to pick things up.  She has been practicing, practicing, practicing and now she's beginning to like doing it herself. 

Bug during snack time.

After almost 9.5 months, Bug's first tooth has finally broken through the gum.  Folks, I thought this day would never come.  I seeing kids half Bug's age with 1-2 teeth and here was our little Bug at 8 months and still not a sign (so Dr. Nish said).  Then a week after that visit, she began to teethe...BAD.  We went from a full night's sleep to waking up 2-3 times a night.  It feels like we have a newborn again!  It's like a sick joke, really.  She got us used to 10-12 hours and then...BAM!  She's kind of cute with half a tooth sticking out, though.  I heard that once the first comes in, the rest just follow like mad.  However, with this girl's history, it seems like we might wait awhile. Dr. Nish said that some babies get one tooth after the other, while others wait months in between.  ::sigh::

On top of all the incessant drooling, Bug is caught up in crawling.  Now, it's kind of an awkward crawl (I'm not going to lie to you), but it's a crawl.  Yes, sometimes she even gets confused about alternating her legs and arms and falls to the ground, and sometimes she even snakes across the floor, but for the most part, she's crawling.  And sometimes she even crawls quickly...to the cat's water dish and sticks her hand in.  Awesome.

That's all for now, people.  Here are some pics of Bug from this morning, yet again, practicing picking up her own food.  

Does this look of concentration look familiar to anyone?  Anyone?
 By the way, she now smiles on cue.  Awkward, but it's a smile.  This is a new development...as of...today.  (You get the latest and greatest of the news as it happens, folks.)
 Funny gal!
God Bless,
Kat

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