There's Gotta Be A Better Word For This....

...than "cute."  Because it's beyond cute.  So cute it's almost painful.  Like when GW walks in the door from work, and El holds up a hand to him and shouts, "Eye!" (Hi).  Like when she burps, and if I say, "burp!" she'll laugh (how does she know that's funny?).  Like when she plays peek-a-boo with herself in a mirror.

She now says "Mama, up," when she wants me to pick her up.  She's practicing her walking all the time.  She's recently refined her kissing technique - instead of opening her mouth and diving for your face, she opens and closes her lips against your cheek.  She still likes the game where she tries to bite your nose and you try not to let her and you squeal in a really high voice.  She's a ham, like her sister.  She calls Av "Ah-ee."  Neat.

Let's see...finished unloading the shoe bench, what's next?

Grinning at Dad

Big Sis helps her walk

Hiey!

She clawed her way into the fridge and helped herself to a bloody corpse...I mean plum.

Her favorite ride.

The Barbuna Triangle

We're on a secret mission to find Captain Hook.  We need to find the secret way to Captain Hook at his Barbuna Triangle home.  We used our invisibility suits and our cloak of silence to sneak past his guards.  Av stole his pixie dust and cleverly stored it in a lantern, leaving it hidden in plain sight while the guards unknowingly ran past us.  "Us" is secret agent Av, baby secret agent El, and secret agent Mom.  Secret agent Dad will be joining us for one leg of the mission, before repairing to his paid job to look for more clues.  Secret Agent Av is the best of the agents, many times decorated for valor. 

By Secret Agent Av:  all of the agents have secret powers.  what do you think the secret powers are?

Let's go to the secret agent hide-out.  

Blowing French Kisses

El recently learned to blow kisses, but instead of kissing her hand and then holding her hand out, she sticks three fingers in her mouth, pulls them out, and flings them at you with a "Mwaah" sound.  Sometimes with a spray of baby spit. 

Just had to share that.