She Pulls Up, She Flips, She Cooks!

Here’s a little update on Wendy for the Grandparents.   She has really been learning a lot lately!  She has become quite proficient at pulling up and falling back down on her bum now. This week she has even started to get the hang of cruising about in a very wobbly, slow-motion sort of way.

She learned about being upside down from her cousin Ziva during Charlie’s birthday bash. Since then, it is her favorite thing to do. She throws herself backwards so suddenly and violently that we are both convinced she is playing a game to see which parent will mess up first by dropping her or letting her whack her head on something nearby.

Wendy loves eating big people food.  She usually eats almost as much as Charlie and is a LOT less picky.  Her main goal in life during her waking hours is to make sure that she is as close to Charlie as possible.  (He does not always see this for the delightful adoration of an older sibling that it is.)  The sight of her little bottom fast-timing it in a crawl down the hallway after him has got to be one of my most favorite things in the world right now! 

She loves to say “Hi” (it sounds like ‘ahhhh’) while she opens and closes the fingers of her hand.

  Coincidentally, ‘hi’ sounds a lot like another word she says:

She also says ‘ba ba’ and waves bye-bye about three minutes after someone leaves.   Her vocabulary of sign words is growing too.  She has signed “more” and “down” and “food” and “milk” and “light” and “hot” –some more consistently than others. 

My absolute favorite thing about Wendy is her joy.  She delights in her family.  If any of us have been out of her sight, even for a few minutes, her enthusiasm about seeing us is like we’ve been parted for months.  Her smile seems like an overflow of a body and heart brimming full with happiness.   We also wonder what she will look like when she looses her baby fat.  Her cheeks are so wide that you can watch them widen in a grin from behind her head!!