- Chloe will be your best friend, for a while, if you have any strings/ties/ropes attached to your clothing that she can play with!!
- Grandma Neener (my mom) discovered her 2nd tooth about two weeks after Grandpa Jan discovered the first. (Her first tooth was lower front right, 2nd tooth lower front left.)
- Chloe takes good naps most of the time. She usually fusses when we lay her down but most times stops immediately when we either stick her pacifier in her mouth or put her little silk blanket over her face. It's almost like a switch. :) Then she'll roll around a bit and lately she's been ending up falling asleep with her little bum in the air. :)
- She still likes to wave at people. It's not 100% of the time and she's notorious for not being willing to perform on cue. But her favorite time to wave is over "Daddy's" shoulder. She seems to know that she's the one that gets to leave and perfectly happy to let everybody know. One night Rob was holding her and reading scriptures. Every few minutes she'd look over at me at which point I'd smile and wave at her. She'd smile and wave back and then look away, perfectly happy listening to her daddy read.
- Coco is extremely flexible. She pulls her legs in all kinds of weird contortions without a moments thought. She still, occasionally chews on her toes, when there isn't something else more interesting to look at/grab/chew/suck. And almost always has one or both of her legs straight in the air.
- Like most kids, Chloe has an affinity for other kids. She likes Ben and other kids quite a bit but it's a pretty well-known fact around here that she really, really likes her sister. It seems that, when Coco is in the mood to laugh, Molly will frequently make her laugh without even meaning to. (Not to mention the belly-laughs she gives when Molly is trying.) She likes her siblings so much that when she's in my room with me and I go to the door and open it she gets all wiggly and fast-breathing as she excitedly looks around for Molly and Ben. As if to say, "Here I am guys!! Let's play!!"
- Chloe loves to play games and loves music. If you start to play: "patty cake", "this little piggy", one of her musical toys or books, or even a fun children's song, her eyes light up with a happy knowing look. And with the music she'll try to dance. :)
- The past few days she's started to squint her eyes all the way shut, scrunch up her nose and smile when somebody looks over at her.
- Her first encounter with any kind of solid food was on July first. She was quite dubious. We offered food to her a few more times in the next few weeks. She wasn't a big fan. Then about a month later or so, we tried food again and she's a BIG fan. Anytime she sees me carrying food, she instinctively knows what it is and starts smacking her lips and waving her little arms and kicking her little legs. She thinks she gets to eat whatever I do. :-P She even tried to eat a chip right out of my mouth (on two different occasions). So far she's had, and likes (in order of appearance...to the best of my memory and knowledge):
- zucchini
- sweet potato/yam
- avocado
- yellow squash
- rice
- rice cereal
- bananas (whole or mashed)
- cucumber
- grapes
- pear
- yogurt (doesn't matter what kind)
- Baby Mum Mums (crispy rice cracker things)
- applesauce
- "Morning O's" (a version of Cheerios)
- potato
- a bite of poppy seed muffin (fed to her by daddy) :P
- jarred baby food (we got some for our camping trip, winter squash, spinach and potatoes, grandma's turkey dinner, berries and apples... she liked the spinach and potatoes least)
- celery
- carrots
- chicken
- peach
- cantaloupe
- homemade chicken and rice soup
