She's changed/grown a ton in this last month. She can boogie when she hears music. She cruises (walking while holding on to furniture). She claps.
She lets go of stuff she's holding onto sometimes and can stand by herself for a few seconds:
She had an unfortunate incident versus the elliptical that I feared we'd need Jaws of Life to free her:
Let's back up a bit first. The kids and I were hanging out in my room:
Autumn was looking adorable in this outfit we got new with tags from Julie's Zoe. The onesie is "Up to 3 months" from BabyGAP but the skirt was 12 month sized. So I hung onto the shirt and it still fits her just fine. She looks cute, no?
Anyway, Easton was playing the keyboard for us:
In the second clip you can see Autumn climbing around near the elliptical. And she climbed up on it which is why I took that picture you saw above. I didn't take a picture because she was stuck, I took it because climbing up there was a first...I'm not THAT horrible of a "must-document-everything" parent. :) It wasn't till right after I took it that I realized she was stuck. Of course I went to free her. But she would not budge and she began screaming a heartbreaking scream that brought tears to my eyes. It was so awful. I sent Easton running for her pacifier. He was so calm but quick...simply asking, "Okay, where is it?" and brought it right away. Immediately after that I sent him for lotion. I was going to try to grease her chubby thigh out...she was stuck at the knee, though. So next I had him dash for my phone. He not only found it, but unplugged it from the charger and ran it up to me. I was about to call the fire department or maybe our neighbor. I needed another pair of hands. I couldn't lift her up out of the way enough so that I could also use two hands to free her leg. So, I wasn't going to call "911" just the regular ol' number. She wasn't in any immediate danger, but she sure wasn't happy. I decided to give it one more try and was able to free her finally.
I was snuggling her and Easton went to grab every single stuffed animal she has in her room and threw them at our feet to comfort her.
Easton took this picture with my phone.
I thought he'd buried the lotion with the soft friends but I couldn't find it so I asked, "Where's the lotion?" and he answered, "I put it back in my room." What an amazing kid! I'm seriously not sure how I would've managed all that without my big guy. And then for him to start the "clean up" all on his own??? He's a hero in my book!
Once Autumn was calm, she was all tuckered out and took a nap. When she woke up I took pictures of the small cut on her knee and the bruises beginning to form on her thigh:
I should take more pictures now that they're much uglier and yellower. :) Poor baby.
So that's the excitment around here for our now ten month old girl!
4 comments:
Bless her sweet little heart! What a calm and helpful brother she has! And an excellent keyboardist (is that a word?) to boot!
Awww, that breaks my heart about Autumn. And how scary to not be able to get her out yourself at first. I bet that seemed like the LONGEST time. But you had a huge helper. He IS a Hero.
Awesome keyboard playing. It took me awhile. At first, I was like, why is he not BANGING on the keys...lol but just pecking them so nicely and then I recognized the song. Again, very impressive.
Glad you were able to extricate her! Poor babe.
The only time I've ever thought we'd need official help like that was for a 1/2 delivered mega-constipated twosie. The "joys" of motherhood. BubTar fetched the phone for me, too, that time.
:( Bless her heart!! (and yours too!) I'm glad you were able to get her out. and what a big girl she is doing all that neat stuff!! She looks super cute in her ladybug jammies! :)
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