Great Idea Guy

Here is Marin jumping around in her crib. Any reasonable person can see how much she loved her crib. She made no attempt to get out of it, so it posed no danger which is often cited for the reason to change from a crib to a traditional bed. Despite the wonderful amount of sleep she (and the rest of us) was getting, I thought would be best to get rid of that lousy crib. She now hates going to bed. And after a few hours of sleep, she gets up and wanders around our house at night like John McCain in a town hall meeting. She is so void of rest that she has been running a low grade fever and is having a little trouble keeping things down. I have to take the blame for this one.

Growing Right Up

Marin has been at again. Right before our eyes, she becoming a little girl and learning all kinds of new tricks. My favorite is that she is aware of the presidential campaigns that are going on. "Barack Obama!" is her favorite political figure to point out on the TV. With a little coaching, you can get her to mention John McCain too. I'm saving video evidence until I can get her to do an adequate impersonation of the candidates. As a child, one of my tricks was that I could do an impression of then President (or maybe former President by then) Jimmy Carter. It was simply me smiling as big as possible while saying "Jimmy Carter!" Again, I'm working on impressions (I've got the time), and we'll get back to you. Marin is also trying her best in her new "big girl bed." She is very excited to have this new place to play and read books, but the idea that she has to stay in her bed for the whole night is a little foreign to her. She has been wandering into our room, but she's trying her best and I'm certain she'll be staying there soon. Here are some pictures of Marin showing of her new bed.
She's also been dabbling with her ABCs. Enjoy!