big pictures

New tricks:
I think Karen is getting her top right tooth. She's starting to show more interest in food, and if we catch her in the right mood she'll take a few tastes from a spoon. We bought her a booster seat/high chair combo thing and we try to get her to eat with us. Most of the time that's wishful thinking. Karen does this VERY cute thing now where she scrunches up her nose and snorts (it's a cute snort, I assure you) in and out like a bull about to charge. She's crawling all over the place and she'll follow me around the house. She has almost no interest in her toys, she's incredibly curious and would much rather get into trouble with some "big people stuff." Our apt is now mostly childproofed, and Karen is quick to show us what we've forgotten to do.

This was childproofing miss number 1. She pulled up on the file cabinet drawer, then leaned in and shut her fingers in the drawer. Now the drawers are fixed.

This was childproofing miss number 2, the drawer under the oven used to be filled with plastic bags. Now it's toys.

This jean jacket is size 24-36 months, but we roll the sleeves ALL the way up and put it on her, it's so cute.

I took out a few magnets for Karen to play with on the fridge. She hasn't figured out how to stick them to the fridge, just how to take them off and scatter them all over the kitchen.

Her cheeks are so deliciously kissable

Karen LOVES the phone books under the tv. She can play with them for a very long time--it's one of the main attractions in the room. She flips through the pages as if she's looking something up.

When you call her name when she's playing with the phone books, she looks up as if she knows she's gotten into something. We're having springlike weather, so you've seen in these pictures some days it's t-shirt weather, some days you need a sweater.

This is sort of the face she makes when she scrunches up her nose and snorts in and out. It's great in real life because she looks, scrunches, snorts, then crawls top speed at her target. In the big picture, you can kind of make out the chunk missing from the corner, just above the floorboard which I've painted in with white-out.