She is 'inch-worm' crawling all.over.the.place. Her clothes are filthy at the end of the day because she is constantly sliding around on her belly. She is also working really hard on standing up next to things - which has us very nervous as one of her favorite places to practice this skill is by our fireplace. She babbles a lot, and especially loves to babble louder when anyone else is trying to have a conversation. She wants all eyes on her and you better be listening to her too! She continues to love her johhny-jump-up, however she uses it more as a swing than for jumping. She can get herself swinging pretty good in that thing by running, bouncing and pulling her legs up and swinging around. She also loves to be outside as much as she can - enjoying her swing, riding around in the ranger, or even playing in the grass when I am doing something quick in the garden. Whenever she does an 'amazing act' she will stop, look at you and start clapping until you clap along with her, then she gives her big Mari smile and starts acting goofy all over again. She loves all her baby food and we really have not found anything that she won't eat...in terms of baby food. She absolutely will not eat anything with texture at this point, not even the puffs. O-well we will get there eventually...
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| We thought we were getting pretty smart by giving her small objects to hold onto while trying to take her picture to help keep her distracted from the paper behind her... |
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| It realy only gave us about an additional 5 seconds... |
Sunday, May 27th was also the 'one year' anniversary on when I received the phone call from my cousin that would eventually lead us to Mari. A phone call we were never expecting to receive, a phone call that has brought so much joy to our lives.
