Red Thread To Katie: Back to Work

Saturday, August 27, 2011

Back to Work

Last week, I officially returned to work. I thought about Katie a lot, but I knew she was in good hands with my mom. As far as Katie goes, she has now straightened out her crawl and has increased the speed of her crawl. She still uses her wacky crawl on the wood floors. Her foot that she swings to the side usually provides more traction on that floor than her knee. I love to watch that crawl though.

Katie has also re-discovered her "scary face." For a while it was happening less frequently, and I sort of missed laughing at it. Now she is back to doing it a lot. Sometimes, I think she realizes it makes people laugh because she'll smile after the scary face, but other times, she'll just make her scary face and then go on with life like she has done nothing weird.

Katie still has a lot of things she loves, and one of those things is books. She loves listening to books, looking at books, playing with books, unstacking books, and pulling books off the shelves. One of her favorite books is "Pat the Bunny." My principal gave Katie that book along with the Pat the Bunny stuffed animal at one of my showers, and Katie can't get enough of that. The other day, she went over to choose her toys. She stopped first at the newspaper to take an ad with her. Then she stopped at her toy basket and got the Pat the Bunny stuffed animal. Then she went to her books and chose "Pat the Bunny" and "Goodnight Moon." I hope she continues to love books throughout her life!