With Love, The Phillips: 2009.01

And she crawls....rori kate has been doing this terribly unattractive form of a crawl where she throws her body forward, lands on her stomach pushes off and does it again until she gets to her destination. She has been doing this since mid december. I was beginning to tell people, "I guess this is just how she's going to crawl." (Thinking to myself "We need to start focusing on walking! This looks painful!") Well last night in the midst of iced in Oklahoma weather I was cooking dinner and such as nathan casually says with no excitment what-so-ever "well, you're crawling." I almost didn't even notice but I thought I might should look just in case and there she was up all 4s taking it one "step" at a time!!

Below you will find a post that i started over a month ago, as RK is now almost 8 months (tear) and as previously mentioned CRAWLING! (oh dear!) among other milestones! Clapping(YAY!) and waving (Bye-Bye!) and I think she said mama last night and really meant it, but it might have just been in the ear of the beholder (does the saying work that way?):

I know it's been a while and I really always intend to get on here more so here's a quick run through (as usual)

The Big 6 MONTHS:

Rori turned half a year old and it still astounds me. How can it be that time is going by so quickly? I just can't put my head around it. She is so much fun though! And getting very mobile. In fact, it was in the month of december that she began to do what some might call crawling. I say this because quite honestly I'm beginning to wonder if she will ever "crawl". At this point she get up on hands and knees and pretty much leaps forward. Hey kid, if it gets you from point a to point b i guess it's workin'.

Baby's First Christmas, and Babies first month of CRAZINESS:

i had a brilliant idea last year around this time, "i'm going to do a christmas play with the children's church next year. We will start early and it will not be a mess." ...well we started early and that is about as far as i got with that. i think we ate out every single meal we ate in the month of december, between christmas activities, tending to a 6 month old, church play, christmas shopping, daniel & kim's wedding, december was gone before my eyes even blinked. I didn't get accomplished half of the tasks i would have liked to have completed. i really wanted to have a handmade christmas, most of the gifts at least. i wanted to bake christmas goodies and package them up pretty. oh well, there's always next christmas. Amidst what i truly believed was chaos in comparison to our normal pattern Miss Rori Kate didn't seem to mind at all. She really loved christmas. Everytime i would light the tree up, her eyes beamed and she would squeal until i let her touch the limbs. I walked away for two seconds to come back and find her halfway across the room with each of her hands a hold of a limb as if they were reigns and she were guiding santa's sleigh. I wondered if she would enjoy christmas. Will she get it? Will she want to open presents?" The answer. YES! Aunt Jenni had beautifully wrapped (do i get points for mentioning the beautiful wrapping sister?) a larger box and she couldn't wait to get inside i wish i had video of the squeal she let out as nathan opened that box and she stood up on his lap and looked in with the biggest smile! Truthfully, I know she had no clue what was inside and i don't think she even cared, the box was the biggest present of all. SIDENOTE: now that the box is gone the winnie the poo is just as fun!

AND NOW...as many pics as i can put in!

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