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Ingrit spent the day at home with Mommy today. She likes to play with her blocks, her pop-up pal toy, the dog and the cat. She also likes to cruise around the furniture and she's getting really fast. She stands up all by herself now and loves to dance and clap. Happy baby. 6 teeth now.

Museum Member Ingrit

David and Ingrit at the Children's Museum today. (The other kid? Don't know; couldn't get a picture withou some other munchkin getting in the way!)
New favorite thing there today was a slide...fun!

Weekend Updates, Fish, Hummus and Crawling!

Ingrit and Mommy went to Underwater World at the Mall of America yesterday. We liked it. The goal was to learn the sign for "fish". Well, we'll see, but she got to see a whole bunch of fish! She seemed to really like this giant turtle that swam right up to her face.

Last night we went to an Attachment Parenting Meet Up potluck at one of the women's houses. That was really fun. The husbands/partners and the babies and kids were there. It's so nice to sit and talk and watch the babies play with people who are like minded in child-growing. And all of the kids were very cute. And Ingrit likes hummus with fresh tomato slices. MMMM....a kid after my own tummers.

Ingrit seems to be making friends with one little girl. And she watched in wonder as the others crawled all around. A couple minutes into watching them all crawl, Ingrit started crawling too! Guess she just needed to be sold on the concept. You should see her go baby go!

Today we went to the Children's Museum with G and G W. Ingrit's probably a little young for most of it, but we played in the "habitot" area and she found a favorite thing. Today's favorite thing was a play mail box full of play mail. No surprise since Ingers loves mail. I think every time she goes she'll find a new favorite thing.

Yikes!

Yesterday, Ingrit was in her crib, I was putting laundry away in her room, Jack was sitting under my feet, and I looked at Ingers and said to myself, "She's going to stand up." Ingrit looked right at me and, as if it weren't nothing, she grabbed the crib bars and stood right up. Then she smiled and peered over the top rail.

Yikes! I give her until May to be climbing out of that crib.

Before and After

OKay, so I can't ge the pictures in the right order, but I'm guessing you can logically order them. The top on is "after I helped make cupcakes and got to eat one".

We love to read.

Valentine's Day

Ingrit's first Valentine's Day! She helped me make cupcakes for Daddy. We cheated and went with a mix, but I think we'll make them every year.

Ingrit received a new bath toy from Cupid. Ernie in a wind up boat. She had a lot of fun with it this morning. Evidence? The whole kitchen was a pond when she finished and I didn't really need a shower.

Ingrit attended her first funeral today. My mom's dad's brother. Ingrit insisted on singing and dancing in the funeral home. We had to leave early. She was just too happy!

When we got home we frosted the cupcakes, ate another lunch (we're going for more smaller meals lately) and played while waiting for Daddy to come home.