We’ve doped her with myriad cartoon shorts along with occasional full-length animated features for months now. She invites us to do the “Mee-key Gonald?” round and round the nursery (see video below). She’s got her princess dresses ready and has been asking to wear her Minnie polka dots to school. Minnie herself has been lovingly smeared with yogurt, milk, cookie crumbs, and various other toddler foods. Yep. At long last, we are going to meet the Mouse and the rest of the Gang.
At Washington Square.
13 months: attempting balcony escape
13 months: swing fun at Smith Playground
13 months: the year’s first spring weather weekend
cruising the park
M holds her legs straight out when she’s happy
13 months: getting acquainted with the top of the activity cube
14 months: learning to use a spoon
14 months: painting Henry with food
Daddy’s birthday — what is that?
spiffy work gear
Hi again, Henry.
15 months: M already loves shoes just like Mommy!
15 months: showing Mama how the shapes go together
Today was a big day of firsts for Madeline – at least, the first time that we’ve caught her at these particular forms of mischief.
First, she climbed over the threshold of the office onto the balcony. The baby-proofing challenge just bumped up a level.
Next, she started dancing to daddy’s electronica dance music (who knew Chris had this???). Before, she would bounce here and there, but today she sustained a full-out baby bop until she fell over, then got up and bopped some more.
Finally, Madeline showed us she can stack blocks. I made a two-block stack and asked her to try, and she took my two-block unit and put it on top of a third block. (Baby’s way of showing up Mommy.) Then with a “Yeeaahhh!!” she knocked them down. Then she stacked three blocks by herself.
Onesie AND romper AND pants. I remember when the snaps on her newborn pieces baffled him. Therefore, I should not be surprised at the result we have today. All I can say is he exceeded my expectations.
2014. Not ready for my baby girl to grow quite this big!
Mother’s Day 2014
…for justifying my purchase of a spring footie outfit.
MUST try this. The baby belly is not quite gone and needs to move on. Intervals of 30 seconds each, with 10 seconds rest in between. Go!!
