Salmon, kiwi, and dog food

Yep, the 3 new foods Parker tried this week were salmon, kiwi, and dog food. She loved them all! She’s crawling all over the place and sometimes it’s hard to keep up! I tried to fill up the dogs’ water bowl and left Parker on the floor a ways away from the food bowl.  When I heard little hands slapping the ground getting closer to the food and then a bowl flipping over I ran to catch Parker and she already had a handful of dog food she was stuffing in her mouth. She didn’t seem to like it, but that hasn’t stopped her from trying again and again to eat more. The salmon and kiwi were given to her on purpose so it’s ok if she likes those.
She has traded in her army crawl for a real hands and knees crawl. So she’s on the move even more than before. She is soooo happy now that she has so much freedom. She still definitely prefers walking but at least now she has realized an acceptable way to get around on her own.  She figured out how to get into the cabinet under our tv where we keep a bunch of toys. It was cute at first, but now she just does it all the time. It’s nice that it keeps her occupied for a long time and I know she isn’t getting into anything dangerous.
The new things this week that she is amazing us with are climbing up the stairs-we, fortunately, have a gate up so the dogs can’t get up so she won’t be going up unless we are right there with her-and she can stand on her own for about 5 seconds at a time without holding onto anything. If she’s standing there and leans too far one way she will just start walking in that direction. It’s sort of her “first steps” except for the fact that she falls immediately. But she’s getting there!
Here are the pictures of the week. A lot of them are very similar. Most of them are of her playing in the toy cabinet. There are a couple from when we met Jared for lunch downtown. Today we went to Target and I had to get some pictures of her in the shopping cart. She was being so funny and did NOT want to face forward in the seat. There are also some ridiculous pictures of Nibbler thrown in there, too.

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Here are the videos from the past week.  Like I said, she has been extra happy lately and seems to find everything hilarious.  She’s always laughing all day long.  I tried to get it on film a couple times:  (make sure to click on the link that says “Read the rest of this entry” after the first video so you can see all of them)