ellenmillion: (fairysquash)
Today, I abruptly realized that Guppy was old enough to play with crayons with a minimum risk of eating them, and we got a baggie of old crayons from Aunt R (following a beautiful lunch at the park!). When we got home, I played an officious trumpet fanfare in my head and handed her a few with a sheet of cardstock. I showed her how they marked on paper, and she was off to the races, demanding a new color every few moments until she could no longer hold them all in her little fist.



As displayed on our fridge. I 'helped' her with her name and showed her a few of the squiggles, but the vast majority of this is her work:


While we were cleaning up from dinner, I looked over to discover that she has also figured out how to navigate levels, and she had climbed up onto the first step of the stairs and was working on the next one up. HRM! Time for another baby gate to go up to keep her at the bottom! I am grateful she is a rather timid child, and is willing, for the most part, to take these things in careful stages. The stacks of flooring (and now of cabinets in boxes) have given her some practice in getting up on things and back off. I'm so doomed as she gets more clever.

I got a very short, self-indulgent story written in five-minute blocks today, and I made shredded beef in the pressure cooker. I think I did something else I wanted to note, but I have no idea what that was now. Bed calls.
ellenmillion: (happy baby dance)
You know how some days, you sit down and think 'gosh, I thought I had something interesting to blog about, but I guess not...?' Today is not that day. I'm not sure I have an icon happy enough for today, and I'm pretty sure this post is going to explode from the sheer amount of news in it.

Guppy took her first steps!!!

Never, in the history of babies, has there been a baby so happy as there was last night, toddling and giggling between Jake and I. She is seriously clumsy and crash-landed into waiting laps several of the times, but oh, the triumph on that little girl's face! You hear about what an amazing moment it is, but I'm not sure you ever really appreciate it, or realize how much the child's own recognition of the event plays a role, until you're holding out your hands and watching her make her own way to you. She's been waiting for this, and while she has loved walking behind her stroller or holding onto a hand, she's been aware that there's a world of independence just out of her grabby little reach.

It was an amazing sequence, and I'm so incredibly grateful that Jake could be there with me to share it. It was a perfect moment, following a perfectly delicious dinner of homemade kale quiche.

In related news: I'M SO DOOMED.

She also decided to get up 4 hours early this morning, and stayed up for 2 hours, rather than falling immediately back to sleep. No further unassisted walking, but I know it's just a matter of time.

I have showered, and vacuumed, and got the dog fed and the husband fed and off to work and oh, by the way, launched my coloring book Kickstarter, which is already more than half funded $2 from funded in the first two hours and it's really hard not to obsessively click refresh, so I've also started laundry and am about to go scoop catboxes and maybe find something to repair.

I also got another last-minute Sea Monster sponsorship, so I have an additional card to do, and we're just $4 from a second additional card! I finished one last night - maybe my new favorite - and have started the commissioned one that bumped us up.

I have family coming into town any day now, and it's breakup, which means MUD EVERYWHERE, and we're looking at estimates to have a garage built and it's SPRING (really this time, I hope) and *Kermit flails!!*

I leave you with happy Guppy wearing Jake's ear protection.

ellenmillion: (Default)
EEEEEEEEEEEEEK! Look what Elsa just did:



For once, my crazy-obsessive photo snapping paid off - though I wasn't prepared for her to ACTUALLY go over in that third panel, so she's a little cut off. :P

We are so, so doomed.

/crazymom posting... for now

ETA: she successfully did it again right afterwards, and a third time (though more slowly) when Jake got home about 10 minutes later. Skill acquired!

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