caminando

Walking, that is. Coranelle is starting to toddle from one place/person to another! I cannot tell you how proud it makes me to watch her venture away from whatever she's holding on to and put one foot in front of the other. At this point, it's only 6-12 steps at a time, before she gets going to fast and falls down. Regardless, what a blast. She gets so excited that half the time, she is clapping for herself and laughing as she goes. This makes balance a littler harder to maintain, but I'm confident she'll figure it out soon.

The funny thing about Coranelle learning to walk is that her crazy personality is thrown into the mix. She does not want to do it all the time and if you try to stand her up and push her to walk when she doesn't want to, she'll become a rag doll in your arms, or just flop to the ground and start crying. Stubborn, always!

In other baby news, she has really mastered some sign language and it seems to really make her happier that she can communicate with and respond to adults. She can ask for more, tell us she's "all done", and when we tell her we're going to change her or give her a bath, she'll sign "change" or "bath". I've been signing to her since she was 5 months old and she never really responded. About a month ago, she started "more" and it surprised me and also gave me the push I needed to not give up with some basic signing.

This weekend, we had Rachael's bridal shower up in Estes and enjoyed a beautiful day with friends and family. It was a really fun shower and I am getting super excited for their wedding!

Ryan got to spend the whole day with Coranelle while I went up to Estes with mom for the shower. It was some good father, daughter bonding time. He took her to the fountains at Orchards mall and got to play with her a lot.

That's all for now because I need to go get some cleaning and weeding done, but enjoy the pictures and the video!