Sunday, January 2, 2010: Gave Erika her first solid food, rice cereal. She kind of mouthed it, not really swallowing.
Tuesday, January 5, 2010: It’s really easy to get Erika to laugh, to chortle even, along with you.
Friday, February, 5, 2010: Erika played her first joke on me, trying to put her binky in my mouth.
Monday, February 8, 2010: Erika’s teacher said she held herself up standing under the fish tank, holding onto the bar, for five minutes.
Tuesday, February 9, 2010: Erika’s first tooth is cutting through! Unsurprisingly, she isn’t her usual cheerful self.
Wednesday, February 17, 2010: Erika can put her binky in her mouth herself.
Tuesday, February 23, 2010: Let go of Erika’s hands while she was standing and she stood for at least three seconds. Naomi was my witness and we cheered and cheered.
Saturday, February 26, 2010: Erika’s second tooth broke through.
Saturday, March 13, 2010: Erika is pulling herself up, reaching from the ottoman to the couch, going from crawling to sitting, generally and suddenly very mobile, eating avocado, first top tooth is through, dropping everything from the high chair, thinks Naomi is the coolest person in the whole world, giggle fests with Naomi in the bathtub.
Friday, March 19, 2010: Third tooth (first on the top) is visible. Frozen bagels help.
Saturday, March 20, 2010: I’m still having trouble getting used to hearing Erika woke up and finding her standing in the crib.
Sunday, March 21, 2010: Erika is working so hard on walking. Her balance isn’t so good but she loves to take steps.
Monday, March 22, 2010: Erika is saying “Mama.” Well, she’s making the sound anyway.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010: Erika just pulled herself up on the couch.
Wednesday, April 7, 2010: Erika loves to be thrown up in the air. Laughs so much.
Friday, April 9, 2010: Erika is cruising along the couch and pulling up on people’s pant legs.
Wednesday, April 14, 2010: Erika is clapping, flipping the pages of books (very excitedly), looking at books by herself. Close to waving. Wants to hold your fingers and walk, walk, walk. Loves broccoli. Loves finger food. Loves to splash in the bathtub. Has two teeth on the bottom and three (almost four) on the top.
Tuesday, April 20, 2010: Erika is turning the pages to books. Loves tofu. Makes humming noises while she eats. Huge smiles. Standing a bit without support.
Thursday, April 29, 2010: Last night Erika only woke up one time!!
Friday, May 7, 2010: Erika is taking a couple steps, here and there.
Friday, May 14, 2010: Erika is signing milk and waving bye bye.
Monday, May 24, 2010: Erika is saying “Mama”, something that sounds like “kitty”, something that sounds like “Erika”, and “Ga!” for “Dad”.
Thursday, June 17, 2010: Erika pretended to sneeze for us, imitating me. Very cute.
Saturday, June 19, 2010: Erika is walking!
Thursday, June 24, 2010: Erika is putting things in boxes and taking them out. She’s also getting her molars.
Friday, June 25, 2010: Erika said “cat” (over and over) when looking at the purple cat in “Brown Bear Brown Bear.”
Saturday, June 26, 2010: Erika looked at a picture of Daffy Duck on Naomi’s chair and said, “Duck!”
Sunday, July 25, 2010: Erika said Naomi’s name for the first time. She called her “Nay Nay.”
August 10, 2010: Shaking head “no.” Brings us books. Wants to climb, climb, climb. Still says, “hmmm num num” while she eats. Wants to share food.
Tuesday, August 17, 2010: Erika’s at the age where you can’t trust her next to a full box of tissues.
Tuesday, September 7, 2010: Picked up Erika and she was excited to see me, as usual, but this time she yelled “Daddy” which melted my heart. It was her first time saying “Daddy.”
Sunday, September 12, 2010: Erika’s first haircut.
Sunday, September 19, 2010: Erika says “up” now.
Wednesday, September 22, 2010: Erika did a great wave bye bye to Toddler One today.
Tuesday, October 5, 2010: Erika made a sneak attack on Naomi, scaring her.
Wednesday, October 6, 2010: Erika has been roaring like a lion, baaing like a sheep. Knows a lot of animal noises: cat, dog, etc. Knows her nose, mouth, eyes. Says “all done” (sounds like “all gone”).
Monday, October 18, 2010: Erika ran to me at pick up, showed me a cow puppet, gave me a big hug, said “up”, and then smoothly turned to her friends and waved goodbye.