Glasses Grabbing and Hair Pulling

Roxanne is definitely starting to get into her "grabby" phase, where anything that passes in front of her might as well be a chew toy. She goes after things with gusto, reaching and snatching, and if she can't reach it, she just holds her hand in front of her and opens and closes her fist like she is holding it. It's pretty cute. Unfortunately, my husband and I both have glasses, so they are constantly getting ripped off of our faces. The other day in the elevator at work, my co-worker leaned over and politely told me that I had "gunk" on my glasses. Vaguely embarrassed, I took them off and saw banana on the corner of them. Yep. I am now walking around with banana on my glasses. I'm totally a mom. Evidently Roxanne grabbed them the other day after dinner, and I'm assuming it had to be sometime in the last week because we haven't been feeding her banana for that long, but other than that, I don't know. She is also really into pulling my hair. I have crazy thick curly hair and it's just rife for the pulling. Sometimes I think she's just going to be sweet and gently stroke it, and then she gets this little smirk on her face, grabs a handful, and jerks her hand in the air. Usually this ends with me wincing and Roxanne chewing on a strand of my hair. The real question is whether or not she knows she's hurting me...

Father's Day

Our babysitter is really great. Roxanne is there with just 4 other kids, although not all of them are full time. I think only 2 of them are... Anyways, her babysitter, Andrea, is just one of those people who are born to watch kids. She's very energetic and happy and sweet. Roxanne really likes her, and I think she likes listening to her speak Spanish. Andrea's house is also very cute, and the baby area has tons of toys and mobiles hanging from the ceiling. I feel so lucky that Roxanne is in an in-home daycare. It just works for our family.

Andrea and Roxanne made Justin a Father's Day card, and it really chokes me up to look at it. It makes me think of all the future "art projects" and handmade gifts to come. I got a Mother's Day card from Andrea and Roxanne, too, and it's still on our fridge. My card had Roxanne's hand prints traced on there, and Justin's card has her foot print. It's totally adorable. The inside has a little photo of Roxanne, looking cute. Justin really likes it. Roxanne and I made him a little picture frame photo album thing with pictures of the two of them since Roxanne was born. The early ones might be my favorite because you can see how exhausted Justin is, but his smile is so bright and shiny. Dad's definitely deserve a holiday of their own.

mmm, real food

Roxanne has entered the world of rice cereal. So far, she mainly just wants to chew on the spoon, and she's maybe getting a few chunks of cereal every third bite or so, but I guess practice makes perfect. She's pretty messy, which is hard for me, since I've always been one of those people who are neurotic about food stuff. Like fighting back waves of nausea as a second grader watching kids get pudding on their face during lunch. And never being able to sweep table crumbs into my hands off the table. Under any circumstances. Ick. So this is all teaching me a lot about getting over it. But it would be fine with me if Roxanne followed in my footsteps and avoided Oreos at all cost solely based on the fact that they leave that creepy black residue in the corners of your mouth. That's so gross.