Sitting from crawling and other small wonders

Kate is mysteriously finding a way to sit from crawling. Somehow we both seem to miss seeing it happen.

On Friday, Anissa and Kate went to a friend's house that was having a holiday kid gift exchange. What fun to try to get all of the kids to look the same direction at the same time. How'd they do it? Sing a song from Gymboree, and that'll do it.

In other news, Kate's friend, Petra came over to the house to visit (with her parents, of course). Petra enjoyed playing on the stairs. It didn't take long for Kate to work her way over to the stairs and give it a go, too! She hadn't really noticed the stairs before Petra pointed them out.

In other news, Tim built a mantel for the fireplace in ONE DAY. It was quite an amazing feat!

Sit! Stay! Good Girl!

We are not training a puppy, but look at our little girl sit up all by herself! She'll fall over to one side or the other if she ends up tilted past about 45 degrees of vertical. She just seems to keep changing and growing every day now. She's close to crawling, but not there yet. I'll place her on the rug in the living room to start dinner, and when I check on her a minute later, she's moved a couple of feet. She'll look at me with all smiles, but won't tell me how she got there!