Maddox Crawls AND Gets A Tooth

Wow, we have had an exciting 72 hours. Maddox officially started crawling on Friday. She was only able to go about 3 feet on Friday, but she's up to about 5 or 6 feet at a time now before she gets tired or changes her mind about where she is going. I went for a run yesterday morning and when I got back the gates were up and all of our bookshelves had been cleaned out by Eric. Apparently she went on a crawling kick while I was gone and Eric had to baby proof quickly!! She gets very determined to get over to whatever it is that she wants....she even sticks her tongue out while she's crawling....like she's really working hard. And I suppose she is right now. But, soon it will be old hat. Last night when we were getting her ready for bed I discovered a tooth poking through her bottom gums. I think I scared her I shouted out so loud in excitement. You can't really see it well yet, but you can definitely feel it. So between the major milestones of crawling AND getting teeth we are hoping the middle of the night wake up calls will end soon. She has slept until at least 5AM the last couple of days so it seems we are makin' headway back to her old self of sleeping so well through the night. So Eric had a lot to celebrate about yesterday for Father's Day. Teeth, crawling...and gates!! The three of us went to the Radisson hotel, downtown Davenport, for a celebration brunch. The food was mediocre but Maddox was hilarious. They had a live jazz band playing and she was seriously mesmerized by both the jazz band AND the huge waterfall in the lobby. She was entertainment for all the people eating. She even sucked a little apple juice and water from my straw....a new activity. I have been trying a sippy cup with her lately but she hasn't figured it out yet, so I thought I'd try the plain ol' straw and she got it! Then we rode up to the 6th floor in the glass elevator. She thought that was pretty cool. So we've definitely entered into another level of parenting....that is with the crawling. She is getting so old....can't believe she'll be a year old in just 2.5 months.