Standing and sipping.............

Sorry for the long delay between blogs. At least Kali 0.11's grin was front and center on the blog for awhile to keep everyone smiling.

Kali 0.11 added a couple of new tricks. She's now standing on her own for quite a bit longer than she has in the past. No steps of any kind, but that's likely to be coming soon. She likes to stand at her baby piano and push the buttons. Once the music starts, she sticks both hands in the air and wiggles to the music. I suppose that our payment for a year of parenting is that we get to see Kali perform for free. She loves the attention.

Kali also caught us off-guard yesterday. We went to meet with my sister and her husband. That also means that Kali gets to play with her cousin, Gwen. Gwen was in fine form, piling home a mix of Cheerios, cheese and bologna at break-neck speed. Kali did similar work with baby turkey, green beans, oranges, and animal cookies. Kali was even nice enough to offer a half-chewed orange to Gwen, who grabbed it and knocked it down in record time. The surprise was that Mrs. Lime offered Kali a kiddie cup and Kali immediately began to drink from the straw! Once she figured out how neat that was, we couldn't keep her separated from the cup. We even took the cup home and she drank two more glasses of water at home through a straw! Needless to say, the next diaper was VERY wet. But she loved it, so we're going to be keeping more cups when we go to restaurants so she has plenty to drink with at home.

Who knows what new tricks today will bring?