After the bath, Maggie finally got enough courage to move from the 2nd stair, where she has been caught sitting numerous times over the last week, all the way to the top! She was quite pleased with herself that she kept crawling between the bedrooms and the top of the stairs. I kept asking her how she expected to get down, but she wasn't over her happy dance yet. So, I took her back downstairs, and she went right back up again. I found something to block it off and put her back in the living room. Uh oh, now we have 2 levels to search for her. But she wasn't done yet. Two minutes later, we find her inside the kitchen cart.
She really needs to figure out how to get down from places - but I suppose that's a bit much to ask :)
Next, we all went outside to pick the first harvest of peas (we are going to have a lot this year), and Maggie crawled across the grass, foot of rocks, concrete pad, up the 1 deck stair, and back into the house. She came back out to check out the dirty deck of course - so much for the bath! And thus, she passed out at 8:30, phew what a day!
I have been so poor at documenting things, that I figured I'd better write down her first trip up the stairs before I forgot. I've already missed her first real crawl (I think she started during our trip to Minneapolis June 12-15) and her first pull up (shortly after the crawling) and standing alone (she started practicing on her own about 2 weeks ago and can stand for 10 seconds now).
Evie still prefers her army crawl to real crawling, but is making progress as he sister can now beat her across the room. She is still "twinkle toes" when she does her assisted walk. Both girls love to 'raspberry' for minutes on end. I think we've been in a rasberry 'war' two nights in a row now. There's a lot of spit all over when that finally finishes :)
The most timely post I've done in a long time...but know off to bed as I've done my motherly documenting.
