Back on Track

We're happy to report that we are back on track. Two naps a day and sleeping through the night, yeah! Magnolia is catching up so fast. Every day there is something new and fun that she's learned. She's starting to do two signs in sign language. The one for milk she does but hasn't connected it to asking for milk, still pretty impressed with her imitations. She has started to use furniture to walk along. George puts the remote control in various places and she'll walk anywhere to get to it. Today I held her hands while she was standing and she took a few steps! She's trying all kinds of foods and eats like a champ. Today she ate mashed avocado and loved it. She slept in her stroller for a three mile walk today, yeah! We swam in her baby pool our friends and neighbors, Tom and Christine, gave her. She splashed and crawled around in it, she's never done that before! We went to a neighbor's house today who said "hi" to her and she said "hi" right back. I about died! She started to blow kisses in the Walmart line yesterday too. She likes to look at me with a straight face and blink both eyes at me until I do it back to her and this goes on for a while. She's slowly learning to play with toys, right now they mostly just go in her mouth. We're trying teach her peek-a-boo but she doesn't really get it yet. We've tried hiding her favorite toys blatantly in front of her to see if she can find it. Only until tonight did she make the connection and tip over the box we put over the remote control. Anything for that remote. We even gave her an old one to play with but when we line the two up in every imaginable configuration, she still goes for the real one, the one we try to keep from her. When we throw the phone in the mix, that one trumps all others.
She's such a delight, we're enjoying every minute with her!

Here are some pictures over the past few days.

George and I take her for a nighttime stroll to slowly get her used to the stroller.
Magnolia's first nap outside, even with the neighbor mowing the lawn she slept right through it.

Mary, Tim, and Lilah came to visit on Sunday. Mary, thankfully, fixed a very bad haircut I got here in town. We all went to lunch at Noodles and we thought it was so cute how Lilah drank her milk, holding the tabs as to not squeeze all the milk out of the straw. Lilah was so good to Magnolia, maybe a little too good. I gave Lilah an Oreo and a few minutes later George asked what all the dark stuff was around Magnolia's mouth. Lilah had given her a bite of her cookie who obviously loved it. Like mother, like daughter. :)