Gee, Kerensa has really been delinquent lately in updating this blog. Just kidding, obviously. Well, let’s just say a lot has happened in the last week and a half. Kerensa has not been content just crawling. She took her first few cautious movements forward last Saturday, did a few more on Sunday, and by Monday, she was a pro. So on Tuesday, she was on to bigger and better adventures, namely trying to pull herself up to standing. She accomplished it on Thursday and ever since then she wants to keep on doing it. It is too cute!! Lynn (my mother in law) found her standing in her crib after a nap on Friday, and for most naps now and sometimes in the middle of the night, she decides to stand up when she should be sleeping. She is now working on getting herself back down, so I am looking forward to that.
Having a three day weekend was great, and Kerensa took her first "cruising" steps along the fireplace. And then today, she surprised us all by going up the steps in our sunken living room (two steps total). She still has a way to go before she is truly cruising and then walking, but it has been amazing to watch her recent progression.
As Kerensa interacts more and more with us and her environment (oh, she waved bye today!), she has also grown more aware of what it means when I leave in the mornings. She has started crying when she sees me going out to the car. While I know she stops almost immediately after I drive away, it is hard to hear because it is her way of communicating that she wished I wouldn’t go. The smiles I get when I return though are irreplaceable!
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your little girl is So cute! Hard to believe that you have an 8 onth old, and I have an 18 month old! Weird. Heather doesn't blog her family, but I post pictures and news of them often. Glad you found me!
What a sweetiepie! I, too, am amazed by how fast she's growing.
Believe me when I say that in some part of your mind she'll always be the tiny newborn you brought home from the hospital, or the helpless infant sleeping in her bassinette. This phase, too--the excited explorer tentatively taking her first wobbly steps along the couch--will be stored up in your heart forever.
They always talk about how your life flashes before your eyes when you die, but I think it much more likely that when that moment comes, it will be my children's lives that flash through my last conscious thoughts.
Isn't motherhood wonderful?
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