Walking, Turning, and... Playing.

Ok, this one is mainly because I think this picture is so cute, but it does come with a little anecdote: Lorelei pushes the cart forward and walks behind it. But, as of this moment she is unable to turn the cart around. So, she goes one way, bumps into something and the looks at us to turn it. Well, this time we did not come to her rescue. After some attempts at getting our attention she took things into her own hand, went into the cart, stood up and started pushing the handle from the other side. Needless to say, she did not get very far because she was standing in the cart.

I guess she figured that if she was stuck there anyway, she might just as well play with the blocks a bit. It was quite cute because you could kind of "see" her thinking process :-).


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More Snow!

This past weekend there was snow, again! (No ice though...). Of course we went outside with our new sled! We could actually sled all the way around the block, which doesn't happen very often because a lot of people will sweep the sidewalk by their front door or the snow on the sidewalk will melt because of the heat of the houses... This time it was perfect. We were one of the first out there and had quite some fun. Tobias was doing such a good job holding Lorelei. Even though she sometimes tried to stand up straight, which makes it even hard for me to hold her sometimes, he held her the whole way around, twice!

And Lisa came outside to take this great picture!


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Brushing Teeth

Well, since Lorelei has teeth now (yes, teeth, she has two of them :-)), we thought it was about time to get a toothbrush and start brushing all two of her teeth. And we did. At first she did not like it and cried, but we made it kind of a game and that made her laugh. After a while she pulled the brush out of my hand and stuck it in her mouth herself :-).

Now, she does not have too much of a problem with brushing her teeth, as long as we apply some sound effects while brushing :-)


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Milestone: Walking (With Support)

Lorelei got a walking cart with blocks in it for her birthday. She hasn't been too interested in it until about two weeks ago. That is, she was interested in the blocks, in sitting in the cart and being pushed around, but not in walking behind it and pushing it along...... Well, now she is. Two weeks ago on my daddy day I thought I'd try to put her behind is and see what happens. Well, what a surprise, she started walking. Tobias had one of these things and he would walk behind it, but the cart would get away from him and he would fall. He did not get into it and he used a chair instead.

Lorelei can control the pace quite well. And, she is now so enthusiastic about it that it is the first thing she goes for whe she comes downstairs in the morning. I guess she should keep practising. It makes for some nice pictures. Of course, when she gets tired she always has her big brother to help her out :-).




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Concentration and Coordination...

At Nonny's house there is a plastic ring-pyramid. Lorelei played with that quite a lot during our vacation. It has big plastic rings and a pole that kind of sloped. It is actually quite easy to put the rings back on once you have taken them off. Lorelei, of course, did not realize that you can actually put the rings back on at first. She loved taking them off, sticking them in her mouth and then tossing them aside just to move on to the next color. Well, during the vacation she came to realize that it is not only fun to take them off, but that it is also fun to put them back on. So, she started doing that. Of course th bigges one was the easiest but she got to a point where she would be taking them off one at a time and then putting them back on one at a time.

Well, we also have a pyramid at home, made out of wood, with smaller rings and smaller holes. Altogether I would say quite a bit harder to put the rings on that thing, but, she did it, just like she had done on our vacation in Texas.... And she loves it! Just look at the concentration on that face!


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Winter Wonderland (continued)

When we returned to the Netherlands from our vacation we kind of returned to the same winter wonderland we left. As a matter of fact it was even better because there was enough ice to ice-skate one! Another thing you can do is sledding with your big brother, as you can see here! Last sunday we went to a friends' birthday party in an area with lots of water, including this small lake. I had just bought a sled the day before and of course we had to try it. Well, isn't this just adorable. Tobias was so sweet to his little sister, and Lorelei was having so much fun in the snow!


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Climbing (Continued)

Lorelei started climbing on our vacation in France, but she definitely continued at Nonny's house. The stairs in their house are straight, wide and soft so I guess they make for a nice climb. She just would not stop. Ad a matter of fact, she would climb up and down these stairs. It took some time before she realized it is not a good idea to climb down head-first, but as soon as she realized she had to turn around she was going up and down, up and down....

The past week has been hard due to jetlag, but one of the things I did during the hours she was awake and I tried to exhaust her in the middle of the night was climbing the couch. She could not do it at first, but today (during normal daytime hours...) she did it for the first time without a helping hand (well, I put a pillow on the floor for her to step on, but she did not need that final puch anymore.). The picture looks quite silly, I agree, but I can assure you that she climbed onto that couch all by herself!




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