Odds and ends
Cordelia is really changing. Over the past few weeks, it's almost like she's become a different girl. She is definitely losing some of her "baby" look...and she's becoming even more cute.
Tonight, I pulled out a cat hand puppet that I bought for Valerie a couple years ago. Cordelia leaned into it with an open mouth (I think it was her first kiss). She then gave it a very sweet hug.
One of the cutest things in the world is Cordelia blowing kisses. She is in the stage of not quite understanding, but bumps her mouth with an open hand. Too adorable!
Over the past few weeks, Cordelia really loves putting things into and taking things out of containers. She's actually very good at it. The container she puts things into doesn't have to be much bigger than the item she puts into it. Time for a shape sorter...which I tried with her. I showed her how to put a circular one in and she did that with another circular one, but wanted to stick all the other shapes into the same hole.
We have a small bucket that has puzzle pieces in it. The bucket is what the puzzle came in. Cordelia will hold onto the bucket with one hand and use the other to pick things up and put into the bucket.
I've pulled out the blocks that I got for Valerie a while back. Cordelia loves knocking down towers. She will also put the blocks into the container (and dump the whole container over her head if you let her). I was sitting playing with her yesterday evening when she picked up my hand which was resting on my leg so that she could put a block into it. So sweet!
Cordelia loves shoes. She will carry them all over the house with her. Usually the shoes belong to Valerie as mine and Greg's are heavier. Today I put shoes on her for the first time apart from just trying some on. I think she decided she couldn't walk with shoes on. I set her (standing) on the floor and she would pick one leg up high and look at it. Rather than walking to get to me, she just leaned toward me. Thankfully she was close enough not to fall down, but she didn't adjust her feet like she might have otherwise.
I bought new shoes on Thursday. That evening I found Cordelia with one. She was sitting on the floor next to it, grabbing her foot with her hand and trying to stick it in the shoe. Too stinking cute!
Valerie asked me the other day: "Mama, do you have a crack in your belly?"
me: "Uh, What?"
Valerie: "Remember when you were pregnant with Cordelia? How did she get out?"
I wasn't ready for that conversation. I'll be ready the next time I get a question like that.
If Valerie gets a decent night sleep, she will often get up when Cordelia does, shut the door and spend some time entertaining Cordelia. I find this a Very Good Thing...at least until she pulls out a drum.
Cordelia went up to 6 teeth a couple weeks ago. First she got the bottom incisors then the upper eye teeth. Any longer and she would have looked somewhat vampiric. She now has her top incisors.
Cordelia has been walking for quite a while now. She's getting quite quick now. She is also a climber. She enjoys kneeling on the kid's chairs we have. Today at the Hands-on Museum, she climbed a whole set of stairs. In the toddler area they have a couple places where there are a few steps. She kept going up them and trying to go down them head first. We need to work on that.
Tonight, I pulled out a cat hand puppet that I bought for Valerie a couple years ago. Cordelia leaned into it with an open mouth (I think it was her first kiss). She then gave it a very sweet hug.
One of the cutest things in the world is Cordelia blowing kisses. She is in the stage of not quite understanding, but bumps her mouth with an open hand. Too adorable!
Over the past few weeks, Cordelia really loves putting things into and taking things out of containers. She's actually very good at it. The container she puts things into doesn't have to be much bigger than the item she puts into it. Time for a shape sorter...which I tried with her. I showed her how to put a circular one in and she did that with another circular one, but wanted to stick all the other shapes into the same hole.
We have a small bucket that has puzzle pieces in it. The bucket is what the puzzle came in. Cordelia will hold onto the bucket with one hand and use the other to pick things up and put into the bucket.
I've pulled out the blocks that I got for Valerie a while back. Cordelia loves knocking down towers. She will also put the blocks into the container (and dump the whole container over her head if you let her). I was sitting playing with her yesterday evening when she picked up my hand which was resting on my leg so that she could put a block into it. So sweet!
Cordelia loves shoes. She will carry them all over the house with her. Usually the shoes belong to Valerie as mine and Greg's are heavier. Today I put shoes on her for the first time apart from just trying some on. I think she decided she couldn't walk with shoes on. I set her (standing) on the floor and she would pick one leg up high and look at it. Rather than walking to get to me, she just leaned toward me. Thankfully she was close enough not to fall down, but she didn't adjust her feet like she might have otherwise.
I bought new shoes on Thursday. That evening I found Cordelia with one. She was sitting on the floor next to it, grabbing her foot with her hand and trying to stick it in the shoe. Too stinking cute!
Valerie asked me the other day: "Mama, do you have a crack in your belly?"
me: "Uh, What?"
Valerie: "Remember when you were pregnant with Cordelia? How did she get out?"
I wasn't ready for that conversation. I'll be ready the next time I get a question like that.
If Valerie gets a decent night sleep, she will often get up when Cordelia does, shut the door and spend some time entertaining Cordelia. I find this a Very Good Thing...at least until she pulls out a drum.
Cordelia went up to 6 teeth a couple weeks ago. First she got the bottom incisors then the upper eye teeth. Any longer and she would have looked somewhat vampiric. She now has her top incisors.
Cordelia has been walking for quite a while now. She's getting quite quick now. She is also a climber. She enjoys kneeling on the kid's chairs we have. Today at the Hands-on Museum, she climbed a whole set of stairs. In the toddler area they have a couple places where there are a few steps. She kept going up them and trying to go down them head first. We need to work on that.