Carrie's Page

Hi and welcome to my page. I'm sitting on my mommy's lap and telling her what to type for me. My name is Carrie Lynn Mandera, and I'm almost 7 months old now! I'm a big girl now, though mommy says I'm still a little girl who's trying to be a big girl in a hurry. Grandmom says that too. But I *am* a big girl. Wanna see pictures of me? I'm cute too. My Mommy has some pictures of me on her webpage. You can find them at http://www.tmcom.com/~paige/picture s/carrie. And Jon has some pictures of me at http://users.quadrunner.com/jon/paige. Everyone adores me, of course, and I know you'll adore me too.

Soon I'll have my own website instead of having to share Mommy's. Uncle Shawn said he'd make me my very own internet account! Then I'll have my own email address and my own website and I can get on IRC like my mommy does! (She just told me I am absolutely not allowed to get on IRC because she said it's bad. If it's bad then why does she go there?)

I live in Helena, Montana with my mommy, but I spend a lot of time at Grandmom's too. Grandmom likes to spoil me and I love it. She shares all of her ice cream sandwiches with me, which taste great. She sometimes gives me tastes of other things too. Recently Mommy and Grandmom started feeding me other things than water and formula too! I've tried many things, like bananas, peaches, pears, applesauce, sweet potatoes, green beans, and more. And different kinds of juices too. Some of the stuff I like, and some if it I don't. Recently I've been allowed to have big people food too, like some mashed potatoes and stuff. It's yummy.

I haven't been living with just Mommy for long. I used to live at Grandmom's, with Mommy and Uncle Ricky and Uncle Shawn. Uncle Ricky wasn't around too much, though he did watch me a few times. And Uncle Shawn always smells like bad stuff. Mommy says it's gasoline. Whatever.

When I lived there, there was also the doggy's and the cat. The one dog, the black one, used to lick me all the time. She still does whenever I'm around. She seems to think I need a bath. Mommy yells at her, but I just laugh. The other dog is really big, and he doesn't move much. He doesn't even seem to notice me. The kitty doesn't like me, I don't think. Mommy says she's just jealous but she always runs from me, and once or twice she hissed at me. She now lives with Mommy and me. I like to try to grab her paw and tail. She doesn't seem to like it as much though. But she's not as mean to me anymore, and she doesn't seem scared of me. She helps me stay entertained. Mommy doesn't like that I watch Lacy (the kitty) while Mommy's trying to feed me..

Mommy and I just recently moved into our own place. And I like it alright. All of my most favorite things are there, so that keeps me entertained. Sometimes it is too hot there and sometimes too cold. Oh well.

My favorite things to do are to play with my feet, eat, play with rattles and toys, eat, chew on teethers and anything else I can find, eat, play in my swing, eat, sleep, eat, play with my Kick & Play Piano, eat, chase the kitty, eat, go for walks in my strollers, eat, chew on the phone cord (which Mommy takes away), eat, play in my walker, eat, and play in my car seats with the toys Mommy attatches for me. There are lots of other things I like to do also. I like to try to stand, someday I'll walk. Honest. And I'm working on sitting up. I can sit by myself for a little while now, though I'm pretty wobbly, and if I'm in like a high chair or something, I can sit. No problem! I found a few means of transportation as well. I can roll *anywhere* I want to go! If only the furnature wouldn't get in the way. And if only Mommy didn't pick me up and put me back from where I started. And now I can crawl, though I tend to drag myself a bit more than actually crawling on my hands and knees. I have a few other ways of getting around, but you get the idea. I like to grab things and suck on them. And I put everything in my mouth! Some of the things Mommy takes away from me and tells me are yucky but I don't care. I like to grab Mommy's hair too and try to suck on that. She normally takes it away from me.

You might think Mommy's are no fun from what I'm saying, but they really aren't that bad. Mommy feeds me when I'm hungry, and changes my diaper when it's messy, and does other stuff for me too. She plays with me and keeps me entertained. I like to laugh at her a lot. She thinks I'm laughing just 'cause I'm entertained but really I think she's weird. Are all mommy's weird? Grandmom is weird sometimes too, and I heard she was my mommy's mommy. So I guess so.

I know how to talk! Mommy always says I don't make any sense, but I'm working on it. It's not my fault she can't understand me. I can say random sounds like "mama baba gaga" etc. It's fun. Some people think I'm saying "mama" for Mommy, but I'm not. ;) I just like to trick her into thinking I am!

But I'm getting hungry so I'm going to go now. And Mommy has to go too of course, because somebody's gotta feed me! And I'm the first priority! Bye!

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Last updated: 11/23/99

Grandmom says that Mommy needed to make a disclaimer saying she helped me with this page. But, what do Grandmom's know anyway? O=)