Maryanna keeps us all on our toes. Here she is showing off all sort of tricks. Doing pull ups on James and William's bunkbed. I don't know how she thought of that or where it came from. Certainly not by my example or the boys - she is the only one in this house doing pull ups. I'm just glad she happened to have her diaper on so I could take the picture. The breakfast shot of her feeding Clara is discrete enough to share. Maryanna likes to dress and undress quite often. She loves shoes and is wearing Xiao Xia's in the one picture with the stroller and mine in the other. I never know what to exspect when I check on her. Some mornings she is completely nude, others she'll have her pjs on inside out but her diaper off and sitting next to her in her crib. If I'm lucky I can catch a few crib acrobat stunts as pictured in this collage. Not pictured but just as note worthy are her episodes of dragging Clara across the floor, scooping up Archie's poop in the backyard, pouring her own Cheerios, eating out of the garbage, washing out her own potty chair, climbing out of her car seat, bullying her older brothers and pulling them down by their shirts, wearing Daddy's basketball shorts as a huge dress, putting her brother's boxers on her head, unraveling yards of dental floss throughout the house, pumping hand soap into my salad, decorating herself with a Sharpie.....I could go on and certainly will as this blog continues throughout the rest of the year. This just spells out why I may not seem as connected online anymore. I really can't turn my back for a minute. That is my excuse and I think it is a pretty good one. So sorry Marie'- you are really my only audiance here so I should also apologize for not sending you that really cute skirt pattern and posting pictures of it. Stay tuned.... I'll hopefully have that up soon and a pattern in the mail to you.
