Annie the Over-Achiever

Annie is proving to be quite the go-getter. As the youngest (by one minute, but still) she is entitled to act to act like a baby. She should be taking advantage, laying around, goo-goo-ga-ga-ing it up, but she's intent on leaving babyhood behind. She is one now. In the last month, we've been adding quite a few milestones in her baby book. (Okay, not so much a baby book as a tattered sheet of paper I've been scribbling notes on when I get a chance. Someday those notes will be transferred into her pretty baby book, though.)

Of course, she started walking. And, once she mastered that, she figured she may as well do something useful with her mobility. One of her favorite new "activities" is walking her diaper to the diaper pail to throw it away. She loves this!! She throws away Tessa's diaper, too, just because she's so helpful. (Tessa, our cuddlebug, has no interest in this, or any other chores, for that matter. She's definitely still our baby!!)

Annie's also taken up reading in a little green rocking chair we have in our living room. This is the chair she makes a beeline to with her sippy cup when a cartoon is on, or when she wants to just survey the action. Trust me when I say there is always something for her to observe from this chair. It's her spot (Tessa, did you hear that?), and she climbs in and out of it all day.

A milestone I have yet to see listed in any baby book, though, is one that she mastered today. I'll let you take a look for yourself.

Keep in mind that Annie is only 13 months old...

I'm afraid of what 14 months will bring.