Christer & Cat

Addison has been changing and growing so much just this past month! On March 19th she officially started walking by herself! We were sitting on the living room floor playing when she used me to pull herself up to her feet. She had been doing that for awhile now so I didn’t think much of it. Then she saw something she wanted on the coffee table and just took off- I don’t think she even really noticed until I started cheering her on- then she got a HUGE grin on her face It was just a few feet in distance, but this was the first time that she wasn’t being coached or walking between me and Christer. The next day we practiced again and again until Christer got home from work. I told him that we had something to show him. Addison took off walking towards him and he stayed pretty close until I told him to back up (over and over again) and then he realized what was really going on and had her walking a through a couple rooms to get him. Now she’s cruising faster than ever and follows anything that moves (as I’ll describe here in a bit). Here is a movie of her a couple days after those first steps. I think she was tired and smoothly transition from walking to crawling.

She also loves to help me with the dishes, laundry- really anything that takes my attention. Here she pulled a load of laundry off the chair one piece at a time, tried to pull them over her feet (that’s her way of trying to dress herself) She then laid down on top of them and continued watching Curious George. She cracks me up.

She also LOVES bananas sliced with peanut butter on them- this time I let her feed herself. I realized I should probably only do that when she and the food is restrained- aka in a high chair.

The day she was helping with laundry she was also trying to discover new areas to explore. She got stuck under the chair- which wasn’t very funny for her, but I was trying to muffle my laugh

I’m really excited for the weather to start warming up. Addison is going to LOVE the summer and hopefully we’ll get a lot of swimming in