Rockin & Rollin

Drea is officially on the move! I went late last Thursday with Susan to look at rugs, and I ended up going back the next day to buy one. Almost as soon as we had it down Drea was rolling all over the place! She now rolls in both directions easily and has figured out that she can roll to something if she wants it. She's also trying her best to learn to crawl. She's been pulling up on her hands and knees and rocking back and forth. She's actually scooted backward a couple of times; I expect her to at least be able to creep forward any day now.
She's also started making some new sounds lately too. In the last two weeks she's been using M's, N's, and D's more when babbling. Last night she imitated noises Brian was making. She tries to sing along with her toys that play music now too.

We've made a good bit of progress with eating solids too. She doesn't get a lot to eat, but I try to give her a fruit or cereal around lunchtime and a veggie in the evening before her bath. She's pretty cooperative with most foods, but seems to prefer green beans to almost everything else at this point. I'm looking forward to her being able to pick up small pieces of food and feed herself. There just isn't enough variety available in jarred baby food. I've considered making some baby food for her myself now that I know what she is most likely to eat. She has figured out what we're doing when we eat and drink, and gets upset if we eat or drink and don't give her anything. I've been pretty picky about what food she eats, but since we both only drink water we've actually let her have a sip or two from our glasses occasionally. Of course now whenever she sees one of us holding a cup she thinks we are supposed to give her a sip.
Just last week she started being able to sit up unassisted for a few seconds at a time. She's doing it for longer periods of time every day, and is even attempting to push herself up to a sitting position (she's got a good bit of work to do before she can actually do that though).
I can't believe how fast she's growing and changing! She's gotten so sweet in the last few weeks; she's so cute sometimes I can hardly take it. A few weeks ago at church (I think it was on the 2nd) I took her over to another baby to let her see him. She was so excited she smiled and squealed. She turned around to me and grabbed my face with both hands and pushed her face into mine. She does this now whenever she is overexcited or feeling embarrassed/shy. She's got quite a temper and is easily overstimulated, but most of the time she's really happy and sweet.