The X-axis is just as exciting as the Z-axis

Addy has started clapping! She has been doing "gimme 5" type claps on our hands for a while now, but in the past couple of days she has started clapping her own hands together. Yay!

Destined for management

Addy has always had the slightly disturbing ability to sleep with her eyes cracked open--you know, so she can keep track of what all is going on, even when she's not actually conscious. I just wish she would pick a sleep phase other than REM to do it.

She's been doing a lot of practice crawling over the past couple of days. It's still mostly going backwards, but she'll get forward figured out once it's no longer interesting just to be moving. She's also doing a lot more rolling over, including from back to front. For some reason she hasn't figure out that if she keeps rolling over, she could cover quite a bit of ground. (I would give her about another 3 days on that one; she's kind of scary smart some times.) This weekend should probably be "put the safety locks on all the cabinets" weekend...

Telling time

Addy's internal clock seems to be set about 10-15 minutes fast. Exhibit 1: She knows that I get off work at 4:15, so at about 4:05, she starts calling "Mamamama!" Exhibit 2: Yesterday Addy had PT at 9:00, so I had planned to get her up a little earlier than usual so that she would take her morning nap a little earlier than usual, so she would be awake and ready for therapy. The alarm was set for 5:45. Addy woke me up at 5:30.

I still don't like FaceBook

I joined the rest of the lemmings at the bottom og the FaceBook cliff this week. I still maintain that FB is mostly evil, but it's a point of contact for entirely too many people. Those of you who think that FB has the ability to change the laws of time--and you know who you are--will just have to live with your disappointment. When I have time and a story worth sharing, I will post it here. Why? Here is where the comments are turned off and here is where you don't need a FB account to read about the red-headed wonder.

What is this thing you keep calling "gentle"?

I am so ready for Addy to understand the concept of not yanking on my hair when she has it wrapped around her fingers. I'm pretty sure the cats agree with me on this, too.

The Little Mermaid

Addy has a pair of "shorts" that I refer to as her "funny therapy shorts" because they're mostly for her physical therapy work. (They're homemade "Hip Helpers"--basically bike shorts with the legs sewn together to help with Addy's extremely loose hips.) Lately the shorts haven't been working as well because the legs kind of ride up, and her loose hips just aren't kept in check like they're supposed to. So Mommy the Craft Diva made Addy some mermaid pants in the hopes that they would at least keep her knees together and help with the crawling and rolling over. Well, they work pretty awesome at keeping Addy's legs together all the way down to her ankles, but they also greatly reduce the friction between her legs and the floor, so she got herself scooted along the floor pretty well with them on. However, she finds it easier to push with her arms instead of pulling, so she went backwards across the floor this time... Our poor little mermaid will have to work on finding her way out of reverse.

I dub thee Sir Addy

We're working on helping Addy learn to kneel this week. It will help build up her thighs and trunk so she can ultimately work on walking, but it still makes me think of someone being knighted.