Maggie has a new obsession this week: drawing. She will spend up to half an hour (long enough for, say, Mom to fold a load of clothes) spread out on the couch with a couple colored pencils and a big coloring book. Some times I hear her talk about what she's drawing, like spelling names or tracing shapes. Once her pencil made a "U" shape and she called me over yelling "u!" She's still not super reliable about keeping the pencils on the page, though. Occasionally I hear her say "uh oh Mama" and I know she's taken liberties with coloring on some other surface. So we don't take markers to other people's houses or to appointments. But she does like to be given a "wiper" to clean up her stray marks. This is my kiddo!
We've also discovered that fire can hold her interest for a short period of time. Now that we've been having frosts at night routinely, we've been using our fireplace a little bit. Maggie can sit still for maybe 5 minutes and look at the fire. And she likes it when Bill takes the poker and jabs the logs, sending sparks flying up the chimney. For a little person who's not into snuggling, we've gotten a surprising number of cuddles in already. Thank you fall for providing us with some avenues for tricking our daughter into coziness.
