Infectious Smiles

Once again- this week has flown by, but I must say with every passing day, I am closer to buying a computer!

I have to say- it is true what "they" say, attitudes are contagious. If someone is in a bad mood, it is hard to not let that attitude rub off on you. If someone is in a great mood, that usually will rub off on you too. Nova is contagious. If she is crying, I am crying. If she is happy, I am happy. If she is silly, well- you guessed it. I am silly too! She is usually happy and silly. She gets a lot of her sillyness from her daddy. He is very silly!
This brings me to last Tuesday night. It was about 6:30 at night, just after dinner. Cleon and I were sitting on the couch and Nova was in front of us, happily bouncing in her Baby Einstein jumper. Up and down she went. I decided I wanted an after dinner treat, an ice cream bar. It is amazing to me what happened when she saw this ice cream bar. I sat down in front of her and that little girl started grunting and bouncing even harder than ever. She wanted some. I gave her some. She has no teeth yet, but her little gums made a perfect bite. She wanted more and more and I gave her more and more. Before my hubby and I knew it- she was bouncing, and crying with her mouth wide open and a chunk of ice cream in her mouth. She was experiencing her first ice cream headache! I took the chunk out of her mouth and she quite crying immedietely and lunged for the piece I had just taken out. Apparently, headache and all, she was not done! Cleon and I had a great laugh, sorry babe at your expense! Needless to say, I ate the rest of my ice cream bar, in the hallway, where she could not see me.

Today marks 7 1/2 months for Nova, she is growing everyday. This week, the little girl has made leaps and bounds in milestones- I wish you all could see! For now, I will tell you about them.

Beginning Friday, I was late coming home because I had to check on my in-laws that have decided to gut their bathroom. I am supervising the project,making sure all gets done. This night, my sister-in-law April went out to dinner and then she decided to spend the night with us because she is pregnant and their 1 bathroom in the house in nonexistent, at least until Monday. She made the long journey from the cities to our small town, Elk River. When we got home it was about 9pm and Cleon and the baby were at the neighbors house. It appeared my hubby was playing dominoes and letting Nova play with the 2 neighbor girls. Mikayla is going to be 4 and Taylor is 1 1/2 years old. They are the cutest little girls!
I ventured over to grab the little girl, as it was way past her bedtime. When I got home, April and I could not believe our eyes. Nova started to crawl. For the past week, she had been up on all 4's rocking back and forth. we couldn't believe it! Those neighbor girls must have taught her a lot, because there she was, trying to get her dolly, 3 feet away!
As if that wasn't enough, Monday, I decided winter is on it's way and I'd better get her closet in order. We had received a couple boxes of clothes from someone at work and I had yet to go thru them. So I set Nova in her crib with some toys and I went to town. After a while, I decided she was getting to close to the edge and she might fall out, I raised the side of the crib. As I stood there in amazement, she grabbed the top of the rail and pulled herself right up! OMG! So simple, so wonderful!
Yesterday, as we played outside with the 2 little neighbor girls, both our husbands were gone for the night, so Nicole invited us in for dinner. She had made a wonderful scalloped potato dish. Since, I had not thought about dinner for myself and the baby had just ate, sure why not. While I was helping Nicole set the table, the 3 girls were busy in the living room. Once again, Nova stunned me. She was sitting on the carpet, but was moving towards the linoleum, floor. Once she got her feet anchored on the linoleum, up her butt went and she was doing a downward dog on the kitchen floor! She was trying to stand up!
I don't know about you- but I can't handle anything else! She amazes me everyday and I can't get away from her infectious smiles!