A momentous occasion!

I know, I know, as usual I am behind on catching up. My parents visited for 10 days and I have so many photos and activities to share that I don't know where to start. So, in the meantime, here's the latest...

Guess who finally pushed a tooth through?!

No, not Fiona. She was an early adopter of the tooth. Her first two came in at almost exactly 4 months and she just kept them coming. I thought Adele was going the same way when her first two were right there at almost the same age... but they never came in. Yesterday at 10 months, 2 weeks and 1 day old one finally popped though. Here's a super flattering picture to commemorate the occasion :-) (Click to enlarge, it's tiny but it's there!)

More of it is in today, but I didn't think it was fair to torture her for a second, clearer picture.

And to make up for the indignity of that one, here are a couple that are just too cute to believe :-)

Now hopefully she'll start sleeping better than she has been while preparing for the first tooth -- at least until number two gets its act together. And when that time comes, I'm ready, armed with a tylenol-orajel-big glass of wine combination. Don't worry... the wine is for me. Though if she'd take a bottle...

I'm KIDDING!

Fiona's newest tricks

Every day it seems like Fiona is more and more of a little girl and less and less of a baby...

First, I had to give her a haircut. She has lovely curly hair, but it was too long in the front, so she always looked like she had just rolled out of bed...

(She likes to climb up on Brodie's pillow and smack him lovingly)

It looks neater now, though possibly a little squint and slightly too short... between Fiona squirming all over the place and Ben freaking out that I was about to stab her in the eye with the scissors it was tricky to cut straight! I only cut the fringe though, so overall she still has cute curly baby hair.

She's also started to give cuddles and kisses. If you ask her to 'cuddle monkey' she'll give her monkey toy an enormous hug, but she won't really do the same to humans. However, she'll give kisses to anyone who puckers up if she's in the right mood. Sometimes she misses and it turns into a headbutt, but it's still very endearing. She also loves when I give kisses to her monkey toy, for some reason she thinks that's hilarious.

She is cutting tooth number 14 right now... Only 6 to go. As you can see from this diagram she's quite the tooth growing overachiever! (The red dots are teeth she has.)

Last week we discovered that she'll eat almost anything if you give it to her on a fork and give her a pile of ketchup (or the appropriate condiment) to dip it in. She truly is her father's daughter.

The biggest one though is that she loves to walk around. She won't walk alone, she insists on holding someone's hand (she takes a few steps here and there if you trick her into it) but if you're willing to walk where ever she wants to go at a snail's pace, she will be your friend for life. Last week Ben and I took her and Brodie on a short walk to the convenience store for milk (and an emergency twix) and she walked for almost two blocks. I had a cute video, but blogger is refusing to upload it. I'm currently trying to upload it to our flickr page instead.

Maybe in the next couple of months she'll be walking on her own... and then she will officially be a toddler. Awww.