A Rugrat

I think I know now what they mean by the phrase...
"Look at those baby blues!!!"

My brother-in-law grabbed this picture during his daughter's first experience with a lollipop. There's more video of the experience at the bottom... but let me just tell you... there was sticky slobber everywhere!!



It's official... my little niece is a rugrat. She's finally up on hands and knees... and you can't turn your head for too long before she's off somewhere to explore. She's also reached the point where she feels like she needs to use everything to stand up. She's still too wobbly to actually take off walking... but give her something to steer around with and she's ready to walk anywhere.



And like I posted before... the personality is definitely starting to show up. I love it! She learned how to say "cat" as one of her first words... so now every time she wants to try to say something the first thing out of her mouth is... "kuh... kuh... cat." Too cute! I've been hounding my sister to start teaching her sign language... which is actually easier for babies to learn before speaking. Just simple stuff like to tell people they're hungry and some other simple things. I learned that from my old pastor who I lived with for a little while.

So she's also started an acting career as well. Well... maybe she's just practicing at this point. Here she is doing her best impersonation of the baby from "Lemony Snicket's A Series Of Unfortunate Events." You know... the little baby that who has the skill of biting everything. And the picture below is the whole reason I started calling her Yoda. His teeth she has. Scrunch her face up she does. Cute she is!! Oh yeah... she points at everything now too. I think she realizes that we'll look at whatever she points at... a neat little trick! You'll see that in the video too.

Check out this cool toy that she's got... I almost died laughing the first time I squeezed Tigger's hand! I just had to get some video. Point and shoot cameras are great! A simply fantastic technological advance!