Squealing, Jumping, Giggles and Steps

Been a busy couple of weeks here. It seems Carly changes so much every day. She's getting very good at playing "peek", and sometimes you can really tell she absolutely knows what she's doing when she's playing. You can see the thought and determination to get where she wants to go or see what she wants to see. At times, it's even fair to say sometimes she really gets a one track mind. If she sees something and we try to keep her from it, she just gets even more determined. At least at this point it's still a game and she giggles when we take her away and she goes right back. Sometimes turning to look and see if we're following again... with a big smile on her face or even some giggles.

She really loves to play on the floor with her toys, but sometimes the old standby exersaucer still gets a good workout. Well... I suppose we should go ahead and get onto the pictures, and more.... what's that? More you say? What more could there be??? How about a few videos? She was really hamming it up the last few days and we captured a few great moments in digital wonder. The blogger video we did before took a really long time to upload and process, so this time we're trying YouTube. Please drop a line or a comment if you run into problems. Sorry about the exersaucer one being so dark... we filmed it from across the room and apparently the light directly above must have really played with the camera.

A couple of other notables... we got our new-to-us jogging stroller. We picked it up the weekend before last and have taken it for a couple walks. Kim has already taken it out running too. On the run, Carly enjoyed it for a little bit, then didn't enjoy it for a little bit and finally didn't care because she was sleeping. It really is a fabulous stroller and rides very smooth and light.



The other day, we broke out the "Fridge Farm." Carly really likes it. It's quite entertaining. It's "supposedly" for kids much older than her, but we like to say she's very advanced. She enjoys the little tunes it plays and bops along to them while they sing to her.



Just another view. A little side-note... you may notice Columbo's dinner table in the background. Carly's fascination with said doggie-dinner table is what nudged us to go ahead and break out the afore mentioned Fridge Farm. "Most" of the time, it manages to keep her from playing over there. She has had her first piece of dog food already, and let's just say, that were'nt no Cherrio!!



Ok, that's it for the pictures, I told you there were only a few. There were actually more, but let's face it... you guys come here to see the kid, not us. Besides... we've got a few videos to get up here, and that will soon distract you from the lack of pictures.

Carly has gone full steam ahead into this learning to walk thing. She can manage to pull herself up behind this little walker deal and as long as it's pointed into the open room... away she'll go. Of course.... with this new found gazelle-like speed, it is necessary to stop and check your hair in the mirror!



This is the dark one I mentioned earlier... it's just here so you can see her jump and giggle. We'll work on the lighting in the future. Perhaps we'll even have to quit using the camera to record these and start using the video camera!




These last two were of a bath where she just started giggling out loud when Jason was blowing the suds in the air. She just got the biggest kick out of it.





Ok... well, that's all we have for now. Hope everyone is well, and getting on with Spring things. Soon we'll have flowers out back here, and be able to spend warm sunny days outside. Take care!