You have been busy the last month or so, my little lady! All within one week (at the beginning of May) you went from pushing yourself up from sitting to standing (Cinco de Mayo... Ole! at teeball practice-Brooke you witnessed it! ;)) to the very next day taking your first steps to Daddy. The next few weeks you took a little hiatus from trying to walk, but Memorial Day weekend, you started stepping everywhere. Now you try to walk whenever you can and are actually quite determined to do so! If you fall, you calmly pop right back up and start walking again. Between you, your brother and your sister, you are probably our most steady walker so far. You did a lot of standing before you ever started taking any steps, which I think has helped you! You learned to balance and to "fall" back to your behind if you lost your balance. (Sydney still thinks you are falling however and swoops in to rescue you-which you hate by the way!) Dad and I were wondering when you would start walking, but you have always been our content little A. Happy to just go with the flow and hang out and watch. So my theory is that you have been taking your time, watching, observing, and testing yourself just enough before putting it all together in that beautiful mind of yours. Then once you had it all figured out, it just clicked and you took off!
It has been so much fun watching you grow and change! A few other new things of yours is that you like to snuggle us! Before you would only snuggle at sleep-times, but now it is almost as if you *want* to rest your head on our shoulders. I love those moments. You are jabbering a lot more now and voicing/showing your displeasure by hitting, trying to bite, or screeching. Yeah...those aren't so fun. However, we know that it's your only way to communicate with us right now, and before long we will get to hear all about how unhappy you are with us. You have two older siblings who do a phenomenal job of doing just that. ;)
We love you, our sweet girl! xoxo
Back when you just stood...
The day you really started walking everywhere at Grandma Dodo's!
Now we can't stop you. Look at that face..."I...
"...want that..."
"...camera!"
