Stand Up and Dance!

Watching Barney (again) amidst a jumble of toys, books, and DVD's.

Watching Barney after being distracted by the lawn guys next door.

Standing up!

I tried to get her on tape walking, but she wouldn't cooperate this morning. She's been taking two or three steps at a time for about two weeks now.

New things going on around the house:

TEETH, TEETH, & MORE TEETH. And more fussing, of course. She has also decided that she does NOT want to sleep in her crib at night, only on mommy. It takes me several tries to get her into bed. I let her cry it out...it took THREE HOURS for her to finally cry herself to sleep. By then, I felt so bad for her that I was crying, too. She gives all of her stuffed animals & dolls kisses. She claps when you tell her to, she waves 'hi' & 'bye', she says her own version of "Hi", she makes the consonant sounds for familiar things (i.e. "Buh" for bird, "Puh" for pots/pans, "Tuh" for tree, etc.). She loves to sit in my lap and play the piano.

And...

She dances! Her favorite is to the Barney theme song (Arrrrhhhhggg! My ears will bleed if I have to hear much more of Barney), but her little Christmas tree also gets her shakin' her little booty. Again, the mowers were next door, so she got a little distracted. I'll try to record her doing her full-on dancin' !