Eye. Ear. Nose. Teeth. She's very good at the pointing to facial features game. Teeth is a recent one. We started it with these new guys coming in so that we could maybe sneak a peek back there and look at their progress (to see if we would be getting sleep any time soon). I figure now it's practice for going to the dentist and letting someone poke around. She is an awesome tooth brusher, by the way. She lets me get right in there and brush the fronts and backs and even go over the new molars. Then she rinses her toothbrush herself and washes off her face. No cavities for this one!
The teeth extravaganza has calmed down. Mostly things are back to normal. Sleeping. Eating. Patience. She still has a few left over new behaviors -- like staying rigid as a board when she doesn't want to be picked up or laid down, or biting the closest available item when she gets too excited or frustrated -- but we're trying to work on extinguishing those guys. If she doesn't get anything positive out of it, I figure she'll drop it eventually.
Yesterday we drove to Springfield for Great Grammy Strauss's 90th birthday party. Maggie was a star. She didn't let anyone pick her up and cuddle her (surprise surprise), but she did allow some pictures if I was holding her on my lap, and she ran around a lot looking oh so cute. She was really interested in watching the other kids play and even followed them around a little bit; but as the youngest of them was 5, she didn't have a very active roll in their games. It did make us excited for when she gets to go to school and join in. She'll really have fun, we think. The two hour car ride in the rain in the dark was a bit of a stretch for Maggie, but it was really good practice for our trek out to Colorado. We've learned now not to plan more than two hours of driving at a time. We just have a party animal on our hands!
