Beware of Child

Last week Uncle Steve and Aunt Krista stopped by to visit Mady (and us too?) on Sunday afternoon. They have been married for almost three months now. It was nice to see them again. They stuck around long enough to give Mady a bath. Stevie just started his doctorate at the University of Akron. They brought some tasty buckeyes from a party on Saturday, which we enjoyed devouring (much like USC). Speaking of football, Michigan started their season 3-0 for the first time since 2006. Go Blue!

In one weeks time, Mady progressed from her first clumsy attempt at crawling to zipping around our apartment like a maniac. She actually opened up a kitchen cabinet today. I'm charging the battery for my cordless drill because I need to install some baby latches on our cabinets tomorrow. Mady also pulled herself up to standing for the first time today. She picked her swing and her toy piano to help her up; the two least sturdy things in the whole room. She seems to gravitate towards danger. For some reason, she will go straight past all of her toys to get to a cord, or a choking hazard, or a cup of coffee. Keeping her alive has been pretty easy until now. I have no idea how our species has survived this long.

Mady has also found lots of excellent uses for her pointer finger. She is very good a pointing, poking, and scratching. She also uses it to pick her nose as often as she can, whether or not her nose actually needs picking. I'm sure we'll get a picture of that to share soon enough. It might be a comfort thing. Some babies suck their thumbs, ours picks her nose.

Here is a short video we filmed of her crawling. Enjoy!