dual personalities

I am a broken record on this blog, but I don’t think anyone is complaining that this weekly post always amounts to “Katie continues to move / groove / be adorable.” We are lucky that this is the case!

Katie visited the doctor this week and was declared “very healthy.” I had the experience of a parent at the parent-teacher conference of an “A” student, who wanted the doctor to articulate every which way that Katie is “very healthy.” I also went to the appointment armed with questions since it’s been 3 whole months since we saw the doctor. His response to most of them was, “She is happy? And gaining weight? She’s fine!” The exception was when he said “It’s wintertime?” in response to my question about a dry patch on Katie’s foot. Good to know!! (I do think, as a “pandemic mom” with basically no real-time comparisons for my baby, I get a pass for being a little neurotic.)

Now for the fun updates:

Katie can pull herself up to kneeling, which affords her the great privilege of banging on the coffee table and reaching for remotes and coffee cups. (You might notice that they are all pushed to the far edge in the above gif.) I finally child-proofed the shelves on the TV credenza, and now it seems like “all surfaces” are up next.

My photography is getting a little shoddy, as evidenced here, but it is because I have to keep more than one eye on Katie at all times now. Here she is exercising her reaching skills, often employed in the service of finding and grabbing non-toys. (Classic.)

The most fun reaching and climbing takes place on top of a parent — I have officially become a jungle gym.

In general, she continues to explore everything in ways that sometimes seem quite silly…

but are, of course, quite brilliant when you really think about it. (There’s that broken record!)