The following two videos are really music to my ears.
In the first video, you may notice that Laney enjoys having you pat your hand against her mouth and she'll react pretty much every time you do it. You may also notice that as soon as you stop, she stops singing.
In the second video, Macy demonstrates what her mommy taught her.
Clearly this is my favorite website ever! (Was there any doubt?)
However, I now have a NEW second favorite website ever. Are you excited to find out what it is? (I bet you aren't...but I'm going to tell you anyway)
Unbeknownst to me, Macy has decided to share her love of photography by creating a blog that will be updated every day with at least one new photograph that she took herself. (I have to tell you that I'm jealous that she's figured out how to get a new post out everyday; as you are well aware that my posting frequency has significantly faltered.)
So here it is:
www.TheItsyBitsyPhotographer.com
(Check it out often; pictures updated daily!)
We have entered the middle of January and in the coming days Laney will lose her title as "Baby of the Family." Not only will she no longer be the littlest one, a position she's currently holding onto by a mere 3 pounds, but she's on the verge of finding herself in 3rd place. Aunt Sara is now within 3 weeks of her new little man and Aunt Tori is so close to her due date, that she could actually be on the way to hospital as I type this. (Just so we are clear...I'm NOT saying that she is on her way to the hospital, only that her due date is so close that it is not out of the question.)
It seems that Laney is aware of her inevitable title loss and has decided to just go ahead and continue maturing. She's getting closer and closer to crawling every day, though I'm betting that she just skips it and goes right to walking. I can't get over how strong she seems. If you hold her hands for balance, she can easily keep herself upright with her strong, strong thighs.
I think back to those days when I was hoping to see a trace of eye tracking and now she's locked in on everything going on around her. If she's sitting in your lap and you make a noise, she swings her head back and tries to look at you upside down. If you just leave her either in the middle of the room or in her high chair while things are going on, you can watch her eyes scanning the room taking it all in. I told you that we refer to her as Chumbawamba and if we were living in Medieval times, we would probably call her Chumba The Observer.
She really is aware of everything going on around her including everything her sister is doing. She seesms to really really like Macy and whenever we let her sit down next to (or on top of) Laney, they always seem to be laughing, at least until Laney pulls out a clump of Macy's hair. It is probably a good thing that Laney is still bald, because I'm sure that as soon as she has some long locks, Macy is going to exact some revenge for all this hair pulling.
While her hair still hasn't really arrived, her bottom two teeth are almost fully in and her top two are on the verge, so she has that going for her, which is nice. I wonder who will get a haircut first..Laney or her to soon-to-be born cousins?
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