All the nooks and crannie's

I thought our house was fairly clean. That was untill Miss Natalie started busting a move. Crawling here and there, she has managed to point out not only the few areas of concern for her safety, but the dingy -dirty-yucky-forgotten areas. She has enjoyed her recent take over of the former dining room. The windows go down to the floor and the drapes are a hoot! 

Yesterday she was checking out the yard through the glass and licking the window. If you have had an older home, you may have enjoyed the luxury of storm windows with metal frames. They ever so nicely collect pools of water at the seams. Those damp seams become mildew. For nearly 7 years, we have been plannign to get rid of the windows so why would I scrub them? Oh, well, if I knew it would take us this long, I would have done so a long time ago. However, Natalie has pushed me over the ledge and I am now on hands and knees scrubbing, scraping, wiping and drying as fast as I can as she creeps behind me putting imaginary things in her mouth. Seriously?! This kiddo grabs lint (as all babies do I'm sure) and hair that I can't even see and puts them in her mouth constantly. 

She loves to pull my hair and eat it. Natalie goes for the short hairs by my ear, rips a sticky finger full of them and eats them. Silly baby!

On a different note, yet still along the lines of messy, she has been enjoying her food. She loves carbs, as does her mom and dad, and she loves to feed herself finger foods. She is not as excited to let us feed her unless it is homemade honey crisp applesauce. She is a little spoiled. I usually have to dish her up 2 times the amount that she will eat because it is sure to end up in Ryan's or my mouth too! It is yummy. Last time in Hood River, the apple orchards were just being picked. We were a little too early for apples so next trip, we will grab a case to do some serious applesauce. So far, I have been making it weekly. Not as efficient, but that is all the time Natalie will allow for too. She is a needy baby.

Teeth update: currently she has her cute two bottom teeth. She is also cutting three or four on the top. One is through, two are trying as of yesterday. It isn't often I get to take a peek. She is pretty tight lipped about it. I grabbed a pic while she was sleeping on my lap. Kind of gross looking, but I don't date put my find her in there to feel. She will chomp down with those razors on the bottom.