We can hardly believe how fast Kathleen grows and changes. She's eating a veritable smorgasbord of solid food now: squash, beans, peaches, pears, apples, carrots, sweet potatoes. She's gotten a little bored of rice cereal, I think, but she'll tolerate it as long as it's being served with something else. I'm consistently astonished by the volume our little girl can consume. She loves to eat!
Kathleen has her own sense of humor lately. She finds unpredictable things hysterical -- mommy sneezing, for example. Daddy singing is also pretty funny, particularly when he sings the "ooh-aah" in "Hey, Baby." ("Hey, Baby" was a favorite at fests and biergartens in Germany. Kathleen would've fit right in. Maybe she'll like "Country Roads," too.) And saying "Singha" (a Thai restaurant in Waikiki) practically guarantees a chuckle or two. Go figure.
Kathleen's developing her balance (something her mother hasn't quite mastered), and so she's getting better at sitting unsupported. For now, she can manage maybe fifteen or twenty seconds on her own before she topples over. Luckily, she finds the falling over fairly amusing. If she's lying down, though, and you offer your hands to pull her up to a sit, she'll bypass sitting altogether, preferring to pull up to a standing position. Only after she's stood for a bit and surveyed what's going on around her will she concede to sit. She still scoots around on her back and on her tummy, but only a little. She's been pulling her knees up underneath her when she's on her tummy the past few days, though. In a month or two we'll be dealing with a crawler, and then we'll really be working to keep up with Kathleen!
