We kept her up a half hour past her bed time so we could get a picture of her at 7:29pm, the exact time of her birth. In order to do that we gave her some of her personal banana cake that I made for her birthday party. She ate part of the chocolate panda bear cake at her party on Sunday, but saved the mini-banana cake for today. That little bit of sugar kept her going for the final half hour as she rifled through her bookshelf and climbed in and out of the chair a half dozen times.As for developmental milestones, she continues to get closer to walking. She can stand on her own for about twenty seconds before she slowly lowers herself to the floor. She can also take about six or seven steps at a time, but only when she really wants to---she rarely attempts it on request. She also has moved on from the infant and toddler bathtub to the full bathtub. She insists on standing up and crawling around so much it just got easier to manage her in the big tub. For the last couple of weeks she has really wants to lay on her back when she's in the tub. There's only about two or three inches of water in the tub, so the water barely covers her ears when she rest her head at the bottom of the tub. She alternates between letting her limbs go limp and kicking her legs and splashing the water.
A tradition we intend to continue on each of her birthdays is to measure and mark her height on the wood post in the basement. Tonight she measured 29 inches (she was 20 and 3/4 inches at her birth). She seems so healthy and strong. She has a doctor's appointment next week, we'll get her weight and post it then. She's seems to be kind of long and lean in her body. She has a nice pot belly, and her legs have a chubby aspect to them, but she seems more muscular than anything.Here's some video of her taking on the banana cake:
And, to commemorate her birth, here's a video of her getting her first bath in the hospital and waking up all of the sleeping babies in the room:
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