And Away We Go!

It has been an exciting month for Ms. Noa... and promises to get more exciting next week when we go on our official family vacation which will include 3-days and 2-nights at Zoom Flume Water Park in East Durham, New York!!!

I wish had more video to post, but this gives you an into to Noa's new turn as "Ms. Independent." She wants to do everything herself (which frankly can be a lot of work for the rest of us!) She pulls up her diaper, and then her pants, after using the potty. She wants to get into bed and out of bed herself, and pull herself up out of her chair. She wants to walk everywhere - and no touching please! Gosh, Mommy what are you an Octopus? Then of course when she realizes that she can't stand, then Mommy is okay... as long as she knows her place.

She is also very interested in who initiated an action. For example - if she wants to get out of her chair, she will fuss and whine if try to hold her hand - she wants me to wait until she reaches out her hand for me. And she can be very stubborn about it. Yesterday she sat in her stroller for 15 minutes just considering whether or not she should give me permission to unbuckle her and pick her up. We also have had some rather long stand-offs over putting on pants or diapers.

Noa has been on break from school for the past two weeks and we've been doing a lot of walking at home - and realizing that she probably doesn't do as much walking at school as she does when she is home. This makes sense - they only have some much time to take kids from one activity to another at school, but we're actually noticed for the first time that she is building up some calf muscles! The bike of course helps - she loves riding it around the garden and just the action (even if she isn't initiating the pedaling) is a good work out for her.