Well, there have been a few more steps this week. If she's in the right mood when we wriggle free of her hand, she'll go one or two steps before dropping to her knees and asking for a finger again. She just lacks the confidence to do it on her own. When she's holding on to one of us, she barely uses the hand for balance at all. And in fact, sometimes it makes her fall, like when she suddenly decides to go in a different direction than the finger was expecting. But she doesn't feel like she can go it alone yet. Cautious cautious girl.
This weekend we went to a big party at Bill's advisor's house and Maggie was a star. She spent three hours alternately chasing a dog and the other two kids in attendance. She went an hour past dinner and bedtime without a complaint, and everyone thought she was darling and wonderful and all that. She exceeded our expectations, and we got to have fun too!
We are now all over our colds, and it seems possible that Maggie's has gotten out of the habit of waking at 4:30, crying for 2 minutes, silent for 5, crying for 2, silent for 5, and on until 5 or 5:15 when she falls asleep again. That was new this week. And possibly, hopefully, not a new long-standing behavior.
