I made this for Ingrid this weekend. She picked out all the colors, and I tied it up while she slept, and today we went out to play — she played in the dirt, and I played with my camera.
She's growing SO FAST, it's like when she was an infant, her physical growth was always astounding me, and now it's the developmental stuff. She has opinions and shares them. She is playing independently more and more (today, she played independently in her room for the first two hours of her nap, and then took a really late nap…) Tonight we finger painted, and colored with markers, and crayons, and then we went outside and she mastered climbing her climber to get to the slide. Then Dave came out, and we played in the hammock, and with her ball, kicking it and throwing it, and her chasing it around, laughing hysterically. Before we came in for a bath, she ran at me, and lunged, wrapped her arms around my legs and just hugged me. Spontaneously. It was awesome. The spontaneity is just so cool — eating dinner the other night, she stopped and said "Mama, I love you." and then went back to eating. She's just so unbelievable.
Ingrid and the tutu are super cute!