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No real unifying theme to this post other than just a few cute stories that I want to capture here so I don’t forget them 20 years from now.  (Note to self: Must make backup copy of this blog lest anything disastrous happen to WordPress or its contents.)

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Baby B has (quickly) figured out how to get rid of food she doesn’t like–more specifically green beans–so she doesn’t have to eat it. She has discovered that if she places them down in the chair beside her, then they’re gone and she’s that much closer to eating her beloved toast (which, by the way, we have to hide in the kitchen and save it for last, otherwise she won’t want to eat anything else but the toast if she sees it). One green bean after another she directs from her tray to the chair, and so far she’s only done this with green beans. (Though, last night she finally ate a few, so maybe she’s made it past the ick factor.) It’s hard not to laugh when she’s doing this, but I must say I’m impressed with the cleverness of this scheme.

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One of Baby B’s new favorite games is to play “Doors,” as we call it. She’ll go on the other side of a door and shut us out of (or into) the room, then will open the door back up (she rarely latches the door all the way and can open it by digging her fingers into the door frame) and laugh at whoever is on the other side of the door, then shut the door again. We do this over and over and over. And then some more. And then again. She really loves Doors. (Who knew she’d be entertained by such a cheap game?) Oh, and she’s also figured out how to play with the door stops on the wall behind the doors. BOING!!!

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Baby B was playing “Kitchen” the other day when The Husband told me to come and see something. I peek around the corner from the real kitchen and saw what Baby B was doing: using the utensil to stir something in her play pot, then would put it in her mouth as though to taste it. Then she’d go back to stirring it, then taste it again. With so many things she does, I think they might be flukes…that she’s just doing some combination of things that I then interprete as something more meaningful than it really is. But when I see her doing things like this repeatedly, it’s hard to deny the nature of her actions. And it’s really awesome to see! I’m sure she doesn’t fully get it yet, but I love being able to see the beginnings of her make-believe play.

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This kid is amazingly independent a lot of the time when she plays. We still don’t leave her out of our sight for more than maybe a minute or two when she’s playing, but she can play with her toys (or the dog) on her own across the room from us and not even notice that we’re there. So many times when I go to pick her up at daycare, she’s off in one of the activity corners enertaining herself, yet she’s by no means anti-social. In fact, she’s the official welcoming committee for the other babies in the infant room, as she always goes over to greet or send off anyone who arrives or departs. I love that so far she has a good mix of independence but without being a loner. (I first typed “loser” in that last sentence. Yeah, I’m glad she’s not a loser, either.)

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Baby B still isn’t walking–at least not by the normal “walking” definition. But she does have a nice Spider-Man kind of walk-crawl going on. She’ll propel herself forward as usual with her hands, and she keeps her left knee on the ground like in crawling, but she takes her right leg forward and steps with that foot. It comes off looking like this gimpy spider/crab/lizard kind of walk.