Tuesday, December 06, 2005
Great Day
Julia had a wonderful day yesterday getting her pictures taken and then spending the rest of the day with Grandma and Katie and then Grandpa. We picked up a very happy and very tired baby last night.
New developments...
Julia has started drooling like crazy and biting on everything. Feeding has gotten to be an adventure since she just gnaws on the nipple (both of the bottle and of the mommie) a big part of the time. We were thinking that she must be teething, but it seems a little early and she doesn't seem in pain yet. But grandma stuck her fingers in there yesterday and says she can feel where a tooth might be working its way up, so it looks like she really is teething. Of course, it might take a while before the tooth breaks through. Still, we're going to pick up some baby orajel and throw her teethers in the fridge.
And, Grandpa says that Julia buzzed her lips at him last night. This is pretty cool, because though she is very vocal, she's primarily stuck to vowels and restricted her consonants to back-of-the-mouth velar, uvular, and glottal sounds, (g's and trilled r's and a lot of sounds that English doesn't utilize) and hasn't really used her lips or the front of her tongue and mouth to make any noises yet (though I keep demonstrating the ba, sound -- one of the easiest labial noises to make). So we're hoping that this signifies great babbling to come.
Finally, she has figured out that if she kicks the arch of her Baby Einstein play mat the singing star will turn on. So that's exactly what she's been doing. No inefficient squirming around for her! Nosiree, she sticks one leg out and with an economy of movement prized in dancers and boxers, kicks the arch to get the star started again and then relaxes into singing along...
So, here are some of the pictures from yesterday's photo shoot. We got some really cute ones of Katie and Julia together, but since I don't have Katie's parents' permission to post pictures of her, you'll just have to imagine them... 
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cuteness as usual... :)
She looks SO cute in the headband I got her. I just thought it would look so nice on her. She is wonderful.