Learning to Swim

Mabel is “learn­ing to swim” at a local swim school, but more impor­tant­ly, she has learned to give a high-five when prompt­ed. She will soon find out that is a crit­i­cal social skill and will thank her par­ents pro­fuse­ly by becom­ing a Nobel prize-win­ning neu­ro-sur­geon who will buy her par­ents a man­sion in their old age. That’s how it works right? 


Almost Walking

Mama bought Mabel this lit­tle cart a while back, but when it first got here, Mabel looked at it for a sec­ond and decid­ed the shiny object off the cor­ner of her eye was far more inter­est­ing. Late­ly, though, she has shown quite a bit more inter­est in the cart. 


Mabel loves necklaces

Mabel finds any­thing that will go around her neck…computer cables, tele­phone cords, etc. Yah, we know. Not child-safe. How­ev­er, she LOVES to wear neck­laces. Fun­ny, because Mama has only worn them a hand­ful of times. Obvi­ous­ly, this desire came “built-in”. She found my neck­laces around, and put them over her head. Cracks us up! [click on each pho­to for close-up]


Mabel says “daddeeee”

Seri­ous­ly so sweet. Say­ing “Mama” isn’t even on the hori­zon. *sigh*


Mabel Playing

Mama was so excit­ed to find this toy at the used toy store; Dad­dy has always talked of this being his very favorite toy when he was a tod­dler. We even have a pic­ture of him play­ing with it at the beach. It’s fun to see Mabel love it, too. And, we love the stage of Mabel “shar­ing” (okay, not real­ly, but play­ing back-forth). 🙂