It's me, Aunt Tricia, with my weekly update. Alexis is doing well and is learning new words all the time. She is walking so well it's amazing, and she rarely loses her balance or falls down anymore. She's not quite running yet, but I'm sure that will happen soon. Today we went to the Missouri History Museum in Forest Park; Alexis really enjoyed walking through the park to get to the museum (and all the walking makes her really tired, too!).
This picture is not that remarkable:
It's just a picture of Alexis playing in the dry tub. (She sometimes likes to play in the downstairs tub while I brush my teeth and stuff in the morning.) What is remarkable is that we have NO idea how she got INTO the tub. I was standing a few feet away, watching her standing in the bathroom; she was leaning over into the tub, trying to pick up her cup, and she leaned over so far her little toes started to come off the ground. I reminded her to be careful, and was wishing my camera was nearby. It would have been a very cute picture, with just her little legs stretched, trying to keep those toes on the ground. She straightened up, with both feet on the ground, and I turned around to pick up laundry off the floor. But when I turned back around, she was sitting in the tub, happily playing. Less than five seconds, I kid you not, and she had to have climbed in because there was no noise at all. Amazing, she is. Yet, she has not figured out how to open the lid of the toilet. Good thing, too!
She's VERY smart, as well. Friday morning, while we were getting ready to go to work and school, I told her that she could wear her cute blue sandals from Grandma. Then I could only find one sandal, and I looked all over. I finally sat down to put on my own shoes and she stood there looking at me, and at the one sandal I'd found. I told her, "I wanted you to wear these little shoes, but I can't find the other one. If you can find the other shoe, we'll put 'em on. Otherwise, you'll have to wear tennis shoes today."
She turned around, carrying her baby under her arm, and disappeared from the living room, through the dining room and around the kitchen wall, either into the kitchen or bathroom. She came back a second later holding a shoe. It wasn't THE shoe, but it was A shoe, and I think that's pretty awesome work for such a tiny person!
Otherwise, not much to tell. Alexis' Mommy may be delayed coming home because the people who were going to replace her in Cuba, are supposed to be coming from Gulfport, Mississippi, so we don't know yet if the tragedy in the Gulf Coast will affect that plan. We hope not, because Alexis misses her Mommy and I know Mommy misses her, but we know those people need help so we'll be understanding if it means we wait a few extra days.
