outside

Today T was determined to go outside. We put up a new gazebo on the patio so I had the door open to let some air in (with the screen from the gazebo by the door). She enthusiastically crawled to the door to go out on the patio. I picked her up and she wailed. She ended up making it outside and discovering that crawling on concrete kinda hurts so she had one knee up kind of crawling... but she didn't seem fazed by the pain of that at all. She cried when I picked her up eventually. I did put some jeans on her finally, to protect her legs so she was happy with that. However, she also wanted to go to the grass, just outside the realm of the patio. She eventually did that too as we made sure to steer her away from the ant pile.

Her big entertainments these days are pulling out the computer cd's; pulling down the dvd's; playing with the magnet letters for the dishwasher/fridge; and taking out hand-me-down clothes from a basket. These 4 activities will entertain for a good bit of time.

I try to give her some food that we eat with our meals instead of just baby food since she tries to grab the spoon and wants to feed herself. Yesterday I made oatmeal patties and she ate it up without a second thought. She eats tofu and she loves to suck on corn on the cob that's been eaten off already (she doesn't do as well with the kernels on). Each day she is quite a mess after eating toast, strawberries, spaghetti. I've begun to put a sheet of newspaper under her chair by the table to make clean-up easier.