Wednesday, August 20, 2008

13 months

She's my little shadow - here you can see she's right into the dishwasher whenever it's opened! Thankfully these ones are clean!
Gabriella is a little girl, more and more everyday - as opposed to a baby girl. We haven't had to keep up our gate at the top of our stairs lately because she won't go down them... then on Friday at Patti's house, I was a little jumpy with Gabi on the deck b/c of the stairs she kept standing near that led to the grass - I think this was her first time, but she got herself down the stairs very gracefully...and now this week she's taken the challenge of going down our sets of stairs to the bottom floor - I've seen her do it on her bum forwards and on her tummy... just this morning she headed down when she could hear Jason talking on his phone! So cute!

Gabriella is an animal-lover; especially dogs! Here's one she got friendly with at the Lake on Saturday. She barks at them and then gets a little too excited by flailing her hands at them...thankfully so far the dogs she's done that to haven't minded!
Gabriella has 3 teeth on top and 2 on the bottom now.
She sleeps like crazy for her naps! Some days she'll sleep well into the afternoon even when beginning at 9:00am.
She's slept better through the night - last week she gave me 3 full nights of rest (Sammy did too!) in a row. Since then she's woken up 1x, which I can totally live with too.

2 comments:

Laurie said...

what a sweet big girl you have!!! And what a helper she will be! :)

Kind of neat she isn't afraid of dogs, too!!

Bryan and Jamie and family said...

Be thankful you have such a good sleeper. Calleigh didn't sleep at all in her bed last night.

Calleigh loves the dishwasher too. She unloads it - clean or dirty.