Fluff

One of the most adorable things right now is Kate trying to get Ember to play with her. I looked over and saw them sitting facing each other, legs apart, passing a ball back and forth. Okay, so Kate rolled the ball at Ember, who smacked it and laughed, and sometimes it found its way back to Kate and sometimes Kate walked over to grab it. But still! So cute! And Kate is very open with the encouragement and praise, too: “Come on Ember! Throw the ball!”

Ember is now crawling full time. She was shaky and stilting about it for a few days and then it just clicked and off she goes. It’s so amazing how that happens! She is slower on the hardwood than the carpet, but she gets around. It’s strange to have to keep checking where she’s gotten to. She still doesn’t get into much but she is exploring and finding things that I have forgotten about, random things in corners that Kate never touches, or fluff in the grating, or cards Kate has left under the chair. I had to put packing tape over the entire corner of our recliner that the cats had ripped open as she was bee-lining for it just to pick the stuffing out to eat.

Kate is really getting into the pretend play. She’s making up stories and scenarios to act out. She likes to yell “It’s a giant butterfly!” and we all act scared and run away. She tells stories about characters from her shows, and uses her stuffed animals in make-believe. I also saw her using her little people as little puppets for the first time, having them pretend talking to each other and everything. So neat!

Potty training is coming along quite well… as long as she is naked on the bottom she has zero accidents. She randomly decided the other day to pee on the big potty rather than her little potty, which she’d completely refused to even attempt before. Now it’s funny, she’ll say “Kate potty!” and go running for the bathroom. It cracks me up, it seems like such a big kid thing to do! Now if only she could do that when wearing undies. It should click soon, I think.

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