A few of her favorite things

She isn't old enough to watch Sound of Music and doesn't yet understand about raindrops on roses or whiskers on kittens, but she does have her favorite things. Here are a few...

Turning lights off and on

Smiling and hamming it up for the camera

Jewelry...any and every kind...take note, boys-you're in trouble

Pulling hair...I find this one very unfortunate and have my hair pulled back 90% of the time

This one shows her teeth (she has 8 now) and she loves to bite everything except food...strange I know

 

 Loves playing the puppy game in which I run around in circles with a stuffed dog and she tries to chase after us

Naptime

For some reason Courtney has never been one to want to nap. I guess we don't really learn to value our sleep enough until we are old and have too many responsibilities and can't get as much as we might like. I thought I had hit the baby jackpot when I got Courtney. For the first couple of months she slept more than most babies her age. She would go for 4 hour stretches in the first few weeks. Then was sleeping up to around 7 hours a stretch by month 3. I am not sure when exactly it all went downhill, but downhill it went starting at about 4 months. We tried sleep training. I read numerous books. All really to not much avail. Now she is down to waking up usually once per night, which I can live with but unfortunately the better sleeping at night has pretty much ruined her ability to nap. Even when I know she is so tired she will sit and play, talk, complain, etc. When I finally go in to get her (sometimes after over an hour of entertaining herself and/or complaining) she is happy as a clam. I guess I will just try to be happy that I have a pretty content kid even if she doesn't sleep like she should.

Who? Me?

Now this takes skill...

 I don't think I look tired

Mobility and Court's latest obsession

Christopher had to leave Tacoma early to get back to work. The day after he left, Courtney began really crawling for the first time and the following day began pulling herself up to a stand. Now that she is mobile I sense that I am in big trouble and my life as I knew it was over. I can't leave her alone in a room for any period of time anymore or who knows what mischief she will manage to get into. We're still working on baby proofing.

 

This picture is more recent...she has now climbed up all the stairs in our tri-level condo

 

I'm not mischievious..

  

When Courtney first started using this table it seemed to be the only thing that could keep her attention

While she still clearly loves it, she is also expanding her horizons

 Check out my sweet ride..