Day 323: Strawberry Cutie

Just a quick shot I took during our afternoon snack.  Caught her mid-strawberry bite.

Sometimes she's just too cute, I can't barely stand it.

Day 322: Jane's Animal Expedition

Fridays are my day off, so Michal and I had the entire day to ourselves.  While we made it out of the house to run a few errands in the afternoon, our morning was spent with books.  Lots of books.  As in Michal decided to empty her book bucket and took up residence inside.  She didn't stay in there for long, as she realized she couldn't pester me into reading her favorite book a billion times if she was cooped up.

Example A - I have read Jane's Animal Expedition more times than I care to admit. 

C'mon, Mama!  She's about to get into her plane and take off on a journey!  We can't delay!

Day 321: Cranky Pants McGee

A certain Goose was not a happy camper tonight.  We barely made it through dinner, barely made it through the bath, barely made it through jammies.  My best guess for the reason behind Michal and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad evening: sleepy, hungry beeb.  Oh, and you can see she's in the Ergo carrier - she did NOT want to be anywhere but with me.  Which made the making of dinner tricky.  We made it through but just barely.  Luckily, tomorrow is another day!

Day 320: Eureka!

And there you have it, kind reader: a picture of a walking Goose.  Of course, it could totally just be the kiddo standing in place, since you cannot necessarily see movement in a still photo, but take my word for it - she is walking!  I have no idea why she needed to push her shirt up.  Weirdo.


It's not easy to get a picture of it, since Josh wasn't home to help tag team the photography adventure.  I worked my magic, though!  Oh, and the ladies at her school got video of her walking, so I'm hoping to get a copy of that!

I simply cannot pass up one of these profile shots.  She makes me want to go upstairs, get her up out of bed, and snuggle her tons.  She is such a sweet baby.

Oh, and you can see how curly her hair is, here.  Her school is often pretty warm, so most days she comes home with tons of curls.  

Crowing about her accomplishments?  She LOVES this microphone. 

Is there any doubt she's our kid?  Her new super duper favorite activity? Books.  Looking at them.  Crawling into our lap and having us read any number of books, sometimes twenty times each.  And here she is - it got quiet in the living room, so I went to go check on her as I made dinner.  Not making a beeline for the stairs - she was raiding the book bucket.  And strewing them everywhere.  

Day 319: New Kicks

Not much new on the walking front - Michal did not seem super interested in doing much aerobic exercise (ie walking).  She did manage a few steps for the ladies in the office, although it took much persuading.  For a while I thought she was going to make a liar of me!


We did pick up the Goose's first real pair of kicks.  Went to a really awesome local children's shoe shop and got her fitted (Size 4.5 WW - double wide!).  She did well in them, but only when holding on to hands or chairs to cruise around.  She hasn't really WALKED in the new shoes yet, but they're new - she'll get used to them.

Another angle of these cute shoes!  

Oh, and note the fingers in the mouth - pretty sure their omnipresence is a sign more teeth are on the way.  Given she only has four left to go, I think, it looks like the end of teething is nigh.

Day 318: Take Two

After yesterday's big milestone, today's goal was to take a picture of the Goose walking.  She did some walking at school today, so when we got home, I got dinner started and we attempted to capture this important moment.

Unfortunately, someone wasn't really in the mood.  I think she was overtired.  Instead of taking steps, she just started to fuss and cry, objecting to being forced to do this horrible, mean, awful task.  

But... I... don't... wanna.... walk! 

We have added another favorite food to Michal's list of favorite foods.  Cincinnati Chili.  As you can see, she couldn't get enough of it!

Tomorrow's mission: walking pictures!

Day 317: Not the Picture I Wanted to Post

Today started out like any other day.  After work, I met up with Josh, the baby, and the rest of the family for lunch, afterwards heading home to hang out.  Nothing unusual - we headed down to the basement to watch the Ravens take on the Seattle Seahawks.  Unfortunately some other, lesser team showed up to play, and the Ravens added another loss to their record.  Oh well.

It's a little blurry, but I LOVE her super happy faces! 

Love her jeans and jersey!

Of course, the camera's battery died, so I didn't have the chance to photograph what I REALLY wanted to capture - the Goose took a few steps!  Considering how I was just saying that when she was ready, she'd probably take a bunch of steps... well - I was right!  Up until today, she's take a half step here or there, but nothing more, and none of our coaxing worked.  And then suddenly, tonight, voila!  At first, three steps... then a few more... and a few more.  And then back to crawling and cruising.  But it's a start - she figured it out on her own, and when she's ready, she'll walk full time.  Until then - yay!  It is such fun reaching new milestones!  Oh - and I can't wait to finally buy shoes!