Our baby has been breathing air for almost a year now. In a lot of ways it seems like it’s flown by. Then again, it is hard to remember her being that teeny tiny newborn. I’m so glad I’ve been keeping up with this blog each month so I can look back and remember little details of what she was doing and when. I’m keeping printed copies, also, so Jae Anna can enjoy reading them when she’s older. So these are the big happenings in the life of Jae Anna Wu this month. She has five big pegs (A new word I learned in South GA) and two more that have just cut through. She hasn’t fussed about the teething once the first couple cut through. Around the end of March she started saying and waving bye-bye. Now she prefers to say da-da while she waves. I don’t think she knows who Da-da is. She just likes to make the sound. She’s been drinking from the straw-type sippy cup for a while now, but she finally decided it’s okay to drink out of a regular sippy cup as well. She doesn’t suck enough liquid out to really amount to much, but I let her practice anyhow since she seems to enjoy the new challenge. Feeding her had begun to be a challenge this month. When she got a taste of table food, she wouldn’t eat her baby food. Now she’s gotten very picky about the table food and has decided that baby food isn’t so bad after all. I prefer to feed her the baby food as I feel she’s getting more nutrients and variety that way since she’ll eat any vegetable in baby food form as long as it’s mixed with a fruit. So we’re back to the jarred foods and she’s welcome to have whatever we’re eating on the side. A few weeks ago we left Jae Anna with my sister’s family while we got away for the weekend. This was the first time I’d been away from her over night. I cried when I drove off, but once we got on the road, I knew she was having more fun at my sisters house than she would strapped in a car-seat for hours. And I’m glad she got to spend some bonding time with her cousins, aunt and uncle. We were only gone for two days, but she looked bigger when we returned.
