Rainy Day

This is how Holly responded when I told her that we couldn’t go swimming today. It was raining hard and the weather was bad but we woke up in time from our nap and we were ready to go. Then Mommy realized the date and remembered that class was cancelled. It is apparently Lincoln’s Birthday today which means we can’t go swimming. I tried to explain this to Holly but she just wasn’t having it.

It didn’t take long though before she was up and about and playing again. She has been amazing with her walking and cruising abilities. She has been using this cushion and pushing it and rolling it around the house with her as a support. She brings it to where she needs to go and walks around it and then pulls herself up higher onto other furniture.

Her ability to cruise is astounding. She can pretty much circle the entire room and does so pretty fast, over and over again.

She has a thing though about not standing up in the middle of the room. If you try and stand her she often will not put her feet out so she won’t be supported.

I can hear her thinking, “Mommy this is not a place for walking there is nothing to hold on to” but that won’t be for long, I am pretty sure by her birthday we will have seen some steps. She already lets go for a moment when transferring from one object to another to test her balance and ability to stand.

This morning Joel woke up early around 7:30 but forgot to wake Holly. She slept till about 9:15 when Katie arrived for Therapy. She was a little slow to get started, with needing a change and a bottle and then having to warm up to Katie. There were new toys for her to play with but she wasn’t interested right away. So Katie whiped out the bubbles and she liked those.

One of the new toys was this ball dropper. Holly would put the ball into the hole on the center and watch it roll through the exit but didn’t quite get to put it in the top. She did a few times with help but mostly she liked putting it “in” on the bottom section.

Joel let me sleep until almost 10:00 and then he needed to head to work so pop tart in hand and Holly playing nicely with Katie I sat and watched. We worked with the beads again and I remembered to take some pictures this time. This is how Katie shows her to make a big stretch. She doesn’t really like it. She will do it a few times but then gets aggravated. Therapy was over around 10:30 and then we had breakfast.

We ate Yogurt and took a really long nap. After which we ate some Squash, Daddy made. It has been a while but I was working back up to it after her not eating for two weeks when she was sick. She ate it mixed with the yogurt and also liked the peaches mixed with yogurt.

It was a long day, the weather was bad and we didn’t go out at all after remembering swim class was cancelled. It even hailed this morning. But we did have a lot of fun. Holly enjoyed her Ball Pit throwing the balls out repeatedly and thought it was hilarious.


Since she only took one long nap she was pretty tired by the end of the day and drifted off to sleep at 9:30 which was wonderful because we were able to eat dinner, watch Battlestar and the new Joss Whedon show Dollhouse. There was a lot of back story that needed to be set-up in the new show but overall we really enjoyed it and for now at least will continue to watch.