I love Maggie's newest phase. The "mother may I" phase. Lately she has just been asking that question about all sorts of things. "May I play with this?" "May I go outside?" "May I have some water?" "May I color?" I really don't remember telling her to ask for permission in this way. But I love it! And everyone thinks she's the most polite, well-behaved child. We don't tell them about the persistent interest in spitting or her newfound fascination with picking her nose all the time everywhere. We'll just concentrate on this "may I" and be proud.
She's also gotten super brave in the water. Last time we went to the pool with Baka Sue in tow, she went down one of the slides by herself. She used to make me hold her hand all the way down, but by the end of this visit she was going up and down while we just sat in the water and clapped. She also took it upon herself to lay back in the water and look at the ceiling. She won't even do that in the bath. It was very shallow water where she was experimenting so her bum was still on the bottom of the pool, but she was going so far as to have water flow almost to her eyes. I'll have to look into swimming lessons pretty soon. Oh boy!
