Little Miss Angelina is super mobile. We can’t leave her on her blanket for a second without her crawling off and away. The Legos have been quarantined, and I keep a constant lookout for other too-small objects that she’s likely to find and put in her mouth. My living room floor has never been so clean.

In dietary news, she’s as picky as ever. She still shudders visibly when I try to feed her sweet potatoes, and on our 8th try she blew a huge raspberry so that they landed all over me. I officially give up on sweet potatoes, and I’m considering making my own baby food like I did when Ana was a baby. The fresh stuff has got to taste better.

She’s been sick with a cold almost a week now. I’m keeping her home tomorrow partly because of her runny nose and partly because her baby sitter’s neighborhood is being evacuated due to the crazy wildfires burning through Diamond Bar.

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Here is Angelina enjoying a teething biscuit. That’s the only thing she has enjoyed from the first bite. She hated plain rice cereal and shuddered visibly at her first taste of sweet potatoes. But we persevered, and now she can polish off a third of a jar of sweet potatoes blended with a tablespoon of rice cereal at dinner.

She can sit up for short periods of time and move with alarming speed, having gotten into her older siblings’ Legos several nights in a row, despite their barricades. Right now her crawl involves mostly upper body strength with only minimal use of her legs, but she has started pushing herself on to her knees, so she’ll probably figure out the knee movement soon. Meanwhile, we really need to move the Legos off the floor.

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Yesterday I worked from 9am to 6pm, came home, had a quick dinner, then worked from 7pm until midnight. Yes, I’m tired. No, I still don’t have this work-life balance thing figured out.

These bell peppers are the sole survivors of our gardening experiment this summer. They tasted good enough that we might try again next year.

The kitchen remodel is going well. All that’s left are 5 more cabinets, the vent hood, and the drawer and door knobs. Installing the vanity panels and the flooring and buying accessories for the cabinets will be icing.

This was Angie’s Halloween costume. I think she looks great in orange.

Here’s Angie with her friend Payge who is 4 and a half months older. Payge is small for her age and Angie is big for her age, so they end up looking the same size.

In other news, there’s something screwy with our internet service. Our access has been spotty on a minute by minute basis, and we haven’t been able to get it resolved because every time Kevin calls customer service he gets cut off about 20 minutes into the conversation.

The strangest part is that for about 3 days Google kept redirecting us to their United Kingdom page. Tonight it redirected us to their German page.

Anyway, that’s why I didn’t post a Nablopomo entry yesterday. Apparently I was in Germany.

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The baby girl caught a cold. Instead of going to the pumpkin patch with Alex, Ana, and Daddy this weekend, she had to stay home with boring ol’ Mommy to recuperate. We’ll take pictures of her with the pumpkins the big kids brought home soon.

Speaking of pictures, Kevin took some fabulous ones of Angie trying her first teething biscuit. She has pretty good aim when reaching for things that catch her eye, but they never seem to stay in her grip for long. I had to keep putting the biscuit back in her hand. Also, I’d forgotten how talented babies are at making a big mess out of any kind of food. I’m still not done cleaning the Exersaucer.

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I didn’t update last week because I was bringing work home every night. Up until then I had been doing a good job of keeping work at work. The busy-ness is not over yet. In fact I’m taking a break from work right now. How pathetic is that? Hopefully I get things back under control this coming week.

Here’s what I wanted to write about Angie @ 23 weeks. One morning while still in bed she started babbling without even opening her eyes. Then she opened her eyes just a tiny bit, lifted both feet into the air, and grabbed them with her hands. The memory of that made me smile all day.

I took her to work one afternoon. She was very good natured through it all. My office is such a big place I was only able to visit half the people this go around, so I’ll have to take her back again soon. She also got babysat for the first time by my parents for about 3 hours. She drank from the bottle with no major drama and fell asleep in my mom’s lap.

Ok, now I’m all caught up. On to this week’s update.

She’s gotten even more precise at reaching for things. She almost got my water glass several times during dinner while sitting in my lap. Yikes.

At daycare she has lots of fans, both in the other kids as well as their parents. I’m her biggest fan, but even I’m a little blown away by all the attention. She seems to enjoy it a lot, so much that she won’t fall asleep unless she’s sitting in her carseat amidst all the hubbub. Only then will she slowly drift off.

At night she’s back to waking up only once most of the time. I gave her some rice cereal today for the first time since 3 weeks ago when I first gave it to her and noticed she started waking up 3 times a night. Hopefully I don’t end up regreting it tonight!

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