Agatha opened her first present last night. Just one. We gave it to her for fun, to see what she'd do. Twenty minutes later she had stood on the present a good forty times (it just so happened the present had buttons on it and called out "A" when she did). She danced in circles around it singing "A...A..A..." She tore one corner, then the other, but no more. She jumped on it. pointed to it over and over crying "up! down!" Finally, once we were losing interest, Rob tore a little more of the wrapper and that did it. Agatha tore into it like she might find a whole new universe inside. Alas, it was just a sweet little electric bus. But that to Agatha was amazing. Now here we are the next morning and I've spent an hour trying to distract her from the many wrapped presents that just yesterday were of no interest. She keeps looking at me like I'm evil as she points to the presents that are out of reach crying "up...down...up...down."
Ags update: in 2 days she'll be 16 months old. She's about 32", just over 21 lbs, and can now climb on every chair, couch, bed, and box in the house. She's even figured out how to turn her own little chairs into mini slides, by knocking them forward and sliding down the back of them. her vocabulary has grown...with "mommy" and "daddy" finally being used in reference to the correct people. She's also added: cookie, cracker, Elmo, Big Bird, Grover, Vivi, ouch, crayon, green, water, bath, bat, hair, cheese, people, and girl, to her daily chatter and enjoys singing songs to herself.
She gets increasingly curious, increasingly dangerous, and increasingly irresistible by the day.
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