Lydia turns 11 months old today. This past month she has enjoyed multiple visits from her cousin, Elizabeth. They have had great fun together sharing toys, secrets, and pacifiers. One time they even went grocery shopping together. Thankfully, they have not yet shared any germs.
The relationship between Lydia and Hermione has really blossomed this month. Lydia has gotten very good at 'petting' versus 'hitting' and Hermione loves the attention Lydia gives her and is a very good sport, even when Lydia just grinds her head into Hermione's body (of course, Hermione does this to us all the time). If Lydia is playing on the floor, you will find Hermione very close by.
Here is an excellent moment I caught of the two of them lounging while watching The Emperor's New Groove:
Lydia has been more finicky about food this past month so it's been a bit frustrating. She's getting fed up with the baby food and will tend to swat at it when you try to feed her but she not only doesn't really like table food, she just won't try it. You put different foods down in front of her and she plays with it but doesn't bring it to her mouth. God forbid YOU try to put it in her mouth; she will get all offended. I get lots of notes on her daycare sheet where they offered her things like ravioli or tater tots but she refused it all.
Then the other night, we brought in pasta with my parents from a nice Italian restaurant. I plopped some on her high chair and, as normal, she pushed it around the tray while making her concentrating noise. Then we forked over a bit of her Grandpa's marinara-covered fettuccine pasta. After a few minutes she took a taste . . . then ate it. Then she ate some more. Then she started shoveling it into her mouth just about as fast as we could put it onto her tray. We finally just stopped giving it to her; we were afraid she'd be sick later. She had marinara sauce all over her, but her tummy was full of yummy pasta!
The same night as the pasta night, we made a discovery that we'd been waiting on for quite some time -- her right front upper tooth was starting to poke through! The left one is not far behind.
Though I wrote a whole separate post about it -- see below -- Lydia did get tubes in her ears this past month. We all hope this will end the consistent ear infections. Even though she just got the tubes in last week, she did not have any ear infections during this last month. My theory is since her boyfriend moved over to Infant III in daycare they're not kissing on each other as much and, thus, not as many colds are passed back and forth between the two. Lydia herself moves over to Infant III next Tuesday to be with him again but hopefully with the tubes in place she will be well-armed. She would do better to just stop with the kissing, though.
Lydia is starting to look and act less like a baby and more like a kid. There are times when she's just sitting there and I can tell she's contemplating something . . . I wonder what it is. I wonder if kids ponder about the size of the universe or why chicken tastes like chicken. Most likely she's wondering when she can blow this joint and see her boyfriend again.
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