Samantha is walking! In just the past 3 or 4 days she's gone from taking a few tentative steps at a time to walking all the way across the room. She holds her arms out for balance, but she makes it all the way from one side of the room to the other without falling down. I guess she's officially a toddler.
She's also climbing everything she can find -- the wire mesh baby gate, the footrest in the nursery, her daddy ... Today she managed to climb up onto the futon couch in the den for the first time. It's a bit too tall for her yet, so climbing onto it took her quite a few tries during which she became terribly frustrated and screamed at the top of her lungs (something she's done a lot of today, and a noise that I'm getting really tired of at this point).
But eventually she threw one leg up onto the couch (doing quite a split in the process) then grabbed the fabric of the futon cover with both hands and hauled herself up until she could get her other knee onto the couch, and then she was up. Seconds later she was standing up on the couch trying to walk from end to end, while I had a heart attack fearing that she'd fall off.
We've also discovered today that Sam likes tiramisu cake from the local grocery store's bakery, oreos dipped in milk, and mushrooms in spaghetti sauce.
She has quite a varied diet, actually. She eats tofu -- plain silken tofu is her favorite thing -- along with yogurt, avocado, broccoli (another favorite), tortellini, ravioli, peas, corn, french fries, peanut butter or Nutella on whole wheat bread, Life cereal soaked in milk, plums, peaches, and poached pears cooked in a little water with plums and dash of sugar. And I'm sure there are many other things that I'm forgetting. She also loves long thin strips of cheese that she can bite pieces off with her six little teeth. She's especially fond of Danish Havarti and smoked Gouda -- no processed American cheese food for this girl!
She's also very much an outdoor girl -- she's happiest when outside in the fresh air. I can't wait for spring when all the snow has thawed and we can take Ella and Samantha to the park together for a whole afternoon.
She's also climbing everything she can find -- the wire mesh baby gate, the footrest in the nursery, her daddy ... Today she managed to climb up onto the futon couch in the den for the first time. It's a bit too tall for her yet, so climbing onto it took her quite a few tries during which she became terribly frustrated and screamed at the top of her lungs (something she's done a lot of today, and a noise that I'm getting really tired of at this point).
But eventually she threw one leg up onto the couch (doing quite a split in the process) then grabbed the fabric of the futon cover with both hands and hauled herself up until she could get her other knee onto the couch, and then she was up. Seconds later she was standing up on the couch trying to walk from end to end, while I had a heart attack fearing that she'd fall off.
We've also discovered today that Sam likes tiramisu cake from the local grocery store's bakery, oreos dipped in milk, and mushrooms in spaghetti sauce.
She has quite a varied diet, actually. She eats tofu -- plain silken tofu is her favorite thing -- along with yogurt, avocado, broccoli (another favorite), tortellini, ravioli, peas, corn, french fries, peanut butter or Nutella on whole wheat bread, Life cereal soaked in milk, plums, peaches, and poached pears cooked in a little water with plums and dash of sugar. And I'm sure there are many other things that I'm forgetting. She also loves long thin strips of cheese that she can bite pieces off with her six little teeth. She's especially fond of Danish Havarti and smoked Gouda -- no processed American cheese food for this girl!
She's also very much an outdoor girl -- she's happiest when outside in the fresh air. I can't wait for spring when all the snow has thawed and we can take Ella and Samantha to the park together for a whole afternoon.
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