Floating Angel

Baby loves walking, but she especially loves walking while holding things in her hands. She’ll walk all the way around the first floor of our abode holding her ukulele, for example, or make the same trip carrying a book and a cordless phone. When she does walk across the floor with her hands free, she walks so lightly that her feet seem not to touch the floor. She’ll take three or four rapid stutter steps where the bottoms of her feet might just brush the top of the carpet, but that’s about it.

Today for lunch she ate most of an egg yolk, a good amount of tofu, and some toast. After dinner, not long before bed, she drank cranberry juice for the first time, begging for more sips as soon as the cup was lowered from her lips.  

Bath Toys

Baby’s preferred means of taking a bath is standing in the tub while I wash her. Occasionally, she’ll sit down and splash around a bit, but mostly she likes to survey the whole bathing scene from a height of 30 inches or so. Generally, this isn’t a problem, although it requires a level of attention slightly higher than when she’s sitting in the bath. It’s a rare bath when she doesn’t laugh out loud at least once. When dad squirts one of her plastic toys she gestures for me to put it in her hand and then squeezes it herself. About half the time, she succeeds at getting the toy to squirt and takes great satisfaction in it.