MaMaMaDaDaDa

Miss C is starting to make MaMa DaDa sounds and while I don't think she really associates it with either of us, we do like to pretend and compete over who she is jabbering about. We continue to chat it up with her and though I can't understand what she is saying I like to think she is chatting back.

Yesterday we watched as Miss C went after Copper's bone with a vengence and no amount of redirection or offer of new toys would persuade her to not keep trying to shove the bone in her mouth. I even went so far as to put the bone on a little ledge which I thought was out of reach even though it was only about a foot off the floor in front of the fireplace (Which we don't use by the way in case you were wondering.). I was wrong. I put the bone on the ledge and Miss C on the other side of the living room and she proceeded to grunt and Army crawl and perch up on all fours until she found herself in front of the ledge.

The ledge is brick by the way which totally freaks me out because I keep wondering how in the hell I am going to keep a moving baby from busting her face against a brick ledge in front of our fireplace. Anyway, she not only realized I put what she wanted on that ledge, she worked her ass off to get there. I was slightly tempted to just give it to her to reward her for her determination and perserverance, but there was dog slobber all over it. Gross.

The other new thing Miss C is doing is this attachment thing. It has totally caught me off guard because I used to be able to leave the room, walk away, go out of her line of sight and she honestly didn't notice much. I guess the flip side of her lighting up like a Christmas tree when we walk into the room because she recognizes us is that when we leave that light goes out and tears replace it.

Interestingly enough she also did this for the first time yesterday with Amy. It was crazy because SP and I were both here and were having a check-in with Amy and when she went to leave Miss C actually cried. Granted, she cried for like a second and then moved on to something else which is what she does most of the time when we leave the room but it's new and different.

Speaking of check-in, we had a check-in with Amy yesterday because I found out we are 18th on the waiting list at the daycare at my work. Now 18th might sound great, and it's way better than 110 which is where we started, but what it actually means is that we could get an offer for the Summer or Fall of next year. Because of that we had to discuss if we wanted to continue to have Amy watch Miss C, if she wanted to continue to watch Miss C and the direction we wanted her care to go.

All is good. We think Amy is working out. Miss C is happy. We are happy and things are going to continue as they are.