This week I graduated into the "waddlers" room at daycare! Ms Jennifer says that I'm doing a really good job adjusting to the new eating schedule and I'm getting much better napping! On water day Wednesday, I was so exhausted from playing in the water I slept for 3 hours!!! I really like the new room at daycare because the other kids and I get to sit in our own chairs at a table and eat lunch and afternoon snacks together. At daycare, they have been letting me use spoons on my own to practice eating! I've really started to get a hang of this eating thing! For the most part its FUN! When I am home in the afternoons and I eat my snack with Mommy and Daddy and when we are eating goldfish, they let me put my hand in the bag and pick my own fish out to eat! I'm also getting to be really good on my feet too - when Mommy and Daddy let me out of my stroller while we are shopping, I can disappear very quickly! I keep them on their toes!
This afternoon, I got to go swimming! I had such a fun time! The baby pool is my favorite - its the perfect depth for me because I can walk around the whole thing! There is a big pole that sprays water into the pool and its fun to get splashed in the face! Even though I managed to bump my toe the wrong way on the concrete and rip off my small toenails, its not bothering me too much. I hope it grows back though!
I have also started to climb on things; I figure if I'm already walking, I may as well just start doing everything else. While Mommy and Daddy were eating dinner tonight, I decided to climb up onto my highchair. With the tray pulled off of it, I can grab the seat and climb up onto the foot rest! My muscles are so strong!!!
I know! It has been FOREVER since my last post! It has been such a busy summer! And because I STARTED WALKING over two weeks ago I haven't had the time to sit down and write. Plus, we have had so much company visiting on the weekends, I have too many things I want to do with my visitors! Mimi and Papa just left from their weekend visit, so I'm finally going to sit down and write about how my summer has been since our family vacation!
My First Steps
On Thursday, July 28 I took my first steps! When Daddy picked me up after daycare, my teacher told him that I had taken a couple of steps on my own. When I got home, I took a few more for Daddy! Let's just say, the rest is history because I haven't turned back since my first steps. Now, two weeks later I'm such a pro at walking. I can do full U-Turns if I need to turn around quickly, I can carry multiple toys at a time, I can get up all on my own without assistance (which only took me a week to figure out) and I'm trying to figure out how to do the hokey pokey. Mimi and Papa tried to teach me this weekend and I think I'm starting to get the hang of it! I am just having such a good time exploring everything standing on my two feet I'm just loving it! I also figured out two weeks ago how to drop the balls into my ball tracker - every time I drop another ball in the right spot I clap my hands!
My Godparents Visit
The weekend after I started walking, my godparents, Uncle Dickie and Louisa came to visit! I was so excited to share my newest skills with them. Although I always take a while to warm up to Uncle Dickie, by the time they left I felt so comfortable with him, he could feed me my bottle. While they were visiting, we went to a Durham Bulls game! I had so much fun walking around the ball park! Both Mommy and Daddy took turns walking me around and Uncle Dickie carried me around for a bit explaining how the game baseball is played. I had a great time, it was so nice of them to come visit!
Mimi and Papa Visit
Just this past weekend, Mimi and Papa came to see me! Although I won't get to see them on my birthday since Mimi starts school a few days before my birthday, I got to have a nice weekend with them all to myself! They do such a good job babysitting me - they love reading to me and I LOVE to make them laugh! It was so much fun doing the hokey pokey with them. We also got to go shopping this weekend and I helped pick out my birthday present! I picked out an awesome Radio Flyer wagon!!! We brought it home and while I was napping, Daddy and Papa assembled the wagon so when I woke up I went for a walk in my new wagon with Mimi and Papa! I feel like such a queen in my wagon! I love it and I loved spending time with my Mimi and Papa this weekend!
I have to say...after a day of walking, falling, exploring, talking, opening doors, peeking out windows, jumping on pillows I am so tuckered out. Sometimes I can't even stay awake long enough for Mommy to come home from work! Its no big deal though because Daddy is a great guy to take naps with after school!
