Wow, so it's been a while since I blogged. Life happens. I have a baby. The struggle is wanting to spend time with her but also wanting to write a blog post to remember everything that's happened. So here are some quick highlights:

• Daycare - Maisie has been attending daycare full time since the week before Thanksgiving. She is really thriving. She appears to love her teachers and having that interaction. She's usually the first child to be dropped off and loves that one-on-one time with her teacher. Having her on a set schedule has worked well for her. They taught her how to nap and go to sleep (no more fighting it!) And I think she sees the older kids in her class and wants to do what they are doing, so she comes home and it seems she has learned something new every day. 

• Illness - She had her first cold the first week in December. And her first fever the first week in January. I am sure this isn't the last, but we survived. STRESS!

• Solid food - I waited until she was 6 months to start her on solid food. I let her tell me she was ready and boy was she ever! She sits in her highchair while we eat dinner and kept eyeing our food and wanting it, so we offered her baby food and she loved it. We haven't really found anything she doesn't like. She takes it like a champ, some days more than others. She also hasn't had an allergic reaction to anything either. Fingers crossed she stays a good eater because Mommy and Daddy are adventurous eaters.

• Teeth - Her first bottom tooth popped through Jan. 11, and the second came, a week later, on Jan. 18. I haven't figured out yet if teething is going to be terrible for her or not because she was sick the whole time. I am hoping the fever doesn't come every time she has a tooth because that was miserable for her.

• Sitting and Crawling - These two go hand in hand because they happened together all of a sudden. She has always liked to sit up but she can finally sit up on her own and not look like a weeble-wobble. She started crawling last week and by the beginning of this week is full on using it to get anywhere, especially Caesar's gross dog toys. She loves those the best.