On The Go

Well, Tater has passed the next milestone and now she’s crawling, everywhere she wants too.  She isn’t a speed crawler yet and she doesn’t take off as soon as she is on the ground but if there is something that looks interesting to her she will try to get to it.  At times when Strider is relaxing on the floor she’ll crawl over to his tail or one of his legs and start pulling it.  Fortunately he is very well mannered and he’ll sit there and let her play or he’ll pull his appendage away from her and start kissing her.  The down side to Strider kissing her is that she’ll try to kiss back, she kisses by opening her mouth and sticking her tongue out, so you can just imagine the sparks that fly between the them……. Strider is not the only object that captures her attention on the floor, ANYTHING does; the tiniest morsel of dirt is tracked down, inspected intensely by touching it, looking at it and ultimately tasting it.  Needless to say, a careful eye has to be placed on the Tater every waking moment she is playing on the floor.  She is now eating food twice a day, she digs vegetables and will eat almost anything green, we are still introducing new foods to her and will start giving her more textured foods when she gets her teeth.  With the increase of solid foods comes the increase of solid stools.  This makes it much easier when changing diapers, at time there will be a few tootsie roll looking poops along with rabbit pebbles.  Although they are easy to clean up, they roll!  Recently Tater became sick (probably from eating everything on the floor) and she was coughing and throwing up.  After her mom had finished feeding her one morning I took her out of her highchair, while I was gently playing with her she started coughing, this led her to throw up pretty much everything she had just consumed, all over me.  I was struck in the face and mainly on the chest by a steady flow of vomit….It was disgusting and smelled horrible,  I immediately began dry heaving and almost lost my stomach.  My wife enjoyed the show and made me clean it all up.