On the ninth day of Sabrina…

…my true love gave to me, a toe sucking baby.

Actually the toe sucking wasn’t new to this month, about the first thing she did after her birth was stick her toe in her mouth. I think the toe is to blame for her being so late to roll over. She would start the process of rocking around on her back then, using the momentum she had built up she would flip onto her side. To complete the flip right over onto her stomach she would bring her legs up, I guess the theory was to quickly kick them back down giving her body the extra boost to get over. I never found out if her theory held any merit because when ever she tried this manoeuvre she would get distracted by the feet. "OH Look TOES!! nom nom nom" and it was all over, no rolling baby for at least half an hour while she gnawed on her feet.

No, the new thing for this month came with the increased mobility and there fore increased curiosity. Now everything went in the mouth. Oh look building blocks, stick it in the mouth, oooo play doh tasty, oh look a dog, I wonder what that tastes like? NOM NOM NOM.

And Shoes! (Sorry for  all those not keen on excessive punctuation but this really deserves the exclamation mark) She was, and still is really (I’m so hoping this is not a life long thing) completely and utterly addicted to shoes. Whenever they were left lying around she’d be there giving them a good old suck.

As she got better at moving around would she crawl to her toys? no, she made a bee line to the shoe box and pulled them all out. But worse than that whenever we had a visitor dare to enter the mayhem that is our house she would, under the cover of hyped up older sibling story telling, latch herself onto there feet, tiny prickly baby nails snaring the lip of the shoe impossible to prize off, and while the poor guests exclamations when from "Oh darling you really don’t want that in you mouth" to "AHHH for goodness sake get it off, GET IT OFF!" she would would proceed to smear baby slobber all over there fancy new shoes, not unlike the gloop that green ghost from ghost busters produced, only less green.

I was really worried that sibling jealousy or at least annoyance would kick as she got around more and put whatever they were trying to play with in her mouth. But we have been so blessed with children to distracted by adoration to notice. Yay for Dorable Sporina the Unicorn princess (Eli’s name for her) you are too cute.