Teeth.Attitude..Shoes!!

Sorry it has been SO LONG since I posted. It seems time just gets away from me. As Baby Kies grows so does my need to get some sleep when I can which means my normal blogging time is sometimes eaten up with Sorry it has been SO LONG since I posted. It seems time just gets away from me. As Baby Kies grows so does my need to get some sleep when I can which means my normal blogging time is sometimes eaten up with resting/napping on the couch while Maddox naps! Baby Kies is growing well. I went for an appointment last week and all my numbers check out just fine. I start going every 2 weeks now.....as I am FINALLY 30 weeks. Only 10 weeks to go. Luckily my back pain has gone away in the last couple of weeks so I'm just left with feeling BIG and tired by the end of the day....which is nothing of medical concern. Eric has been working hard on the baby's room. He installed a great curtain rod last weekend and moved the full size bed to the basement with the plans to move the crib in, in a few weeks. Maddox's new big girl bed has made it's way up to the 2nd floor but not actually in to Maddox's room yet....we are transitioning her very slowly! Maddox does something EVERYDAY .... almost every hour..... that I think 'Oh, I've got to put that on the blog'. She is learning so much so fast. She knows a ton of animal sounds now and they are really starting to sound like the real thing...OINK BAA MOO NEIGH TWEET BUZZ WOOF and of course ROAR for the lion. It is really fun. She LOVES giving hugs and is evening getting good at giving and blowing kisses. We are working on her colors and I think she has RED YELLOW and GREEN mastered. Her new favorite food right now is oranges. She'll eat an entire orange if I let her....the real thing....!!...not the yummy mandarin ones from the can. She likes the skin and all. WEIRD. She is getting at least 4 teeth right now. All grinding teeth that are sort of on the side and towards the back. So needless to say she has been a bit whiny lately. She still doesn't have anymore in the front on the bottom, just the 2 but her top right incisor has finally come down nicely. She'll be able to eat a steak soon enough..!! So because of her teething she has become OBSESSED with the pacifier....which I guess is fine for the immediate future if it soothes her. She doesn't let the thing out of her sight and at the first wine she is on the lookout for it. Oddly enough Kim hasn't mentioned anything about her being upset there....so I think if she is distrated by kids/the ability to socialize she doesn't seem to notice the pain. Luckily the teething doesn't seem to wake her up at night ( knock on wood) and generally she is still taking 2 good naps despite the teething. She has really started developing an attitude...or I guess the more positive word would be personality. She is a stubborn little girl and definitely knows what she wants, even when she can't communicate it to us. She'll stomp her feet and even lay down on the ground kicking her feet in an attempt to get us to understand what is is that she is really trying to tell us. Luckily these little tantrums have only occurred in the privacy of our own home! She has developed a shoe fetish in the last week or so. She LOVES to put Eric and I's shoes on...slippers, work shoes, running shoes whatever happens to by lying around!! And in turn she really likes to have her own shoes on all the time....even when she has her PJs on she wants to put her own shoes on top of her PJs. Luckily she has gotten a lot of shoes as gifts so we haven't had to run out and buy her any to suffice her desires! It is really funny, she has actually gotten pretty good at walking around in our BIG SHOES.