Our Puppy

Meredith is crawling everywhere now. My daily activities have suddenly become much more challenging to accomplish.

This morning Kevin put Meredith on our bedroom floor to play with her toys and went to take a shower. A few minutes later he saw her tugging at the shower curtain. She had followed him to see what he was doing.

“It’s like having a little puppy,” he said.

Meredith’s Favorites

Song: “The Eensy Weensy Spider” has finally been replaced with a new favorite – “Barbara Ann” by the Beach Boys. She likes for us to hold her hands and let her dance while we sing “Ba ba ba, ba Babara Ann.”

Food: Cheerios (bar none). Cheerios is the only food that she will eat even though she’s full. She can down a Cheerio averaging seven seconds. (We think her saliva must be made out of acid.) If we let her feed herself, she goes faster ‘cuz she stuffs her mouth full and works on more than one at a time.

Toys: The remote control (she tends to like things she can't have), her Pooh bear, and a musical wind-up doll with really frizzy hair. She goes hysterics whenever she sees it.

Book: Clifford, the big red dog. She has practically destroyed these books from handling them so much.

Words: She can now say four words. “Dada,” “mama” (finally), “hi,” and “baby.” (She often points to her frizzy-haired doll and says “Ba-by.”)

Outing: To the park, of course. When I swing her on the swing, she smiles from ear to ear. Because she has only one tooth on the bottom, she looks like a little Jack ‘O Lantern.

Pastime: Turning off the light switch. Kevin taught her how to do this as a bedtime routine. Now I can’t walk past a single light switch, with her in my arms, without her lunging for it. I never realized we had so many light switches in our house!! She also loves to dance with daddy, spot herself in the mirror, and interact with other babies and toddlers.