Baby still hasn't figured out how to crawl, but she does know how to roll and roll and roll or scoot backwards until she finds one of Mika's slobbery gross toys. Mika being the helpful dog that she is also brings her toys over to the baby and leaves them directly in front of her. So nice. It is unfortunately not an uncommon scene for me to find the baby gnawing on the dog bone.
Baby has figured out how to point to things in real life (as opposed to just books). She points to Mika ALL THE TIME. Right now she has a noodle in one hand and is pointing at Mika with the other hand. Silly baby. A few more new things she can do:
- play pat-a-cake
- do the 'rain' portion of itsy-bitsy spider
- do "So Big!"
- sign "all done" (but she doesn't know what it means)
- dance on command
- the other day she pointed with one hand to a horse in a book and then pointed to the matching horse with the other hand. I was very impressed.
- grow her front two teeth, and two other new teeth (that makes 7 teeth all together)
- sleep through the night most of the time
It seems like she learns a new trick every few days. Her favorite things to do are grab Mika's toenails, pat Mika's back, squeeeeeeeze Mika's fat rolls, try to get Mika's chew toys, (are you seeing a pattern?), point to Mika, read books, and find crumbs off the floor!
In other news, Justin finished a series of papers that he had been working on for 9 months. We are both very excited about that! It was a pretty intense 9 months with a new baby and a huge project. And now we get to celebrate with a trip to Hawaii to visit Justin's family. We were lucky enough to get permission to bring Baby Bear with us, and we are so excited to show her off.
Still no new news on how long we will have Baby. We will still have her through the end of July for sure, and then it's all up in the air.
