Hi Hi Hi

One of the things you realize when you have kids is that there are phrases you use A LOT. You know you use them because your kids repeat them. For some, it's those embarassing cuss words. For others, like us, it's a simple greating like Hi.

For quite some time now Miss R has been doing this "Huh! Huh! Huh!" sound whenever she would see people. At first I thought she was just making random noises. Then we realized she is actually saying Hi and greeting people. Sometimes she'll wave hello or blow kisses too, but she is definitely saying Hi. It's hilarious.

Other things she's doing now...

• Sitting in her new big girl car seat which she LOVES because she wants to do anything and everything her big sister does.


• Eating all table food and no baby food. Again, she wants what we have to eat and no more stinking baby food.


• She'll try to put shoes on her feet, dress herself, put bracelets on her wrists, brush her own teeth with a toothbrush (though not well), comb her hair if given a comb and other things that just seem amazing to me that she's doing now.


• We are so close to walking that it's just a matter of confidence at this point because she does walk when she stops thinking about it.


• Her favorite thing to do is climb up the stairs. She'll dart for them and quickly scurry up them if we aren't careful so we have gated them. But...she is figuring out how to open the gate so we are rethinking the gate.

She's just getting so freakin big so quickly.