Sitting Pretty

This weekend the little angel finally sat for a long time unassisted. She used this newfound skill to find that by sitting, she could reach far more items to put in her mouth, including the cat. She may have been inspired by her friend, the little boy, who came over for our first babysitting exchange on Friday night. I was unprepared for such a mobile baby. I went to change his diaper, and he immediately flipped over and crawled away, tiny little penis flopping in the breeze. I yelled for my beloved to help me with this new sort of baby. My beloved was unimpressed. "That'll be her in a few months," he said, and handed me the diaper. "Better cover him up before it blows." Yeah, right.

What having the little boy over did teach me was that babies just get more and more fun as time goes on. Even though he is only five weeks older than the little angel, the little boy has always been more ambitious in the mobility department. He was so curious and interested in everything.

After all of that inspiration, we then had an extremely busy day on Saturday, including a shrimp boil party up north and an Oktoberfest party out west. The first party went pretty well, but by the second party, the little angel had decided her social calendar needed to be cleared, PRONTO. Strangely enough, once we had been in the car for a few minutes, she was yodelling again, happy as a clam. I think she is channeling Julie from the Love Boat...our new social planner.

Then today, she decided it was time to assert her advanced self. We were playing with the train and the piano, and she sat up for about a half hour with no help. Now, I consider sitting up in a meeting and concentrating on one topic for a half hour to be a major feat of concentration (although tax prep is not quite as interesting as a piano or a train), so I was shocked at her intense, Buddha focus. My little girl, growing up so fast. Next thing you know she'll be twirling a baton.