Mary has been growing leaps and bounds the last few weeks. She has started purposefully communicating with us by using the sign for milk, saying "dada" (and "mom" once!) and pointing at everything. She can also shake her head yes and no and sometimes responds to questions that way. And she is developing quite the sense of humor! Here are some pictures of her in action.
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| Her first "writing" toy. She has definitely got it figured out and is working on better control of the stylus! |
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| She got some birthday balloons which she loves! She crawls around with them in hand and even pulled them through her tunnel. Here they are "trapped" in the tent. |
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| She loves crawling through the holes. |
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| Just hanging out with her balloons. |
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| She got a neat new toy that fits a peg in a block. |
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| She really enjoys exploring this! |
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| She also got a cell phone. It has buttons for her to push, she she is really into right now. |
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| This is her face whenever the phone girl talks to her! |
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| Mary has been practicing walking by pushing her wagon. |
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| She pushes it across the whole room. |
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| And here is Joel showing Mary how to sit in a kayak! We can't wait to teach her how to paddle! |
