maddie diary     april 1998

eleven months old on 29 april

this month
     - steps
      - walking holding on to 1 hand
      - major cruising
      - 6+ teeth
      - slimmed down a bit
      - hair starting to come in

  activities
      - day trips:
      - Reston farm park
      - ferry
      - museum
      - Baltimore aquarium
      - zoo
      - Charlottesville- lacrosse game
interests
     - exploring
       - the pets

Mobility

True to form, Maddie's teasing us with a hint at what's to come, then taking it away.  On the 3rd, she apparently took three steps in view of Louise and her mother.  She did it twice, walking between two chairs.  In two weeks after, virtually nothing.  By the end of the month, 5 steps.

She can crawl down stairs backwards.

Sleeping

At bedtime, she wriggles around in our arms until one of us takes her upstairs.  When she realizes she's going upstairs, she gets fussy, but then when you put her in her crib, she immediately curls up on her front with her bunny.  She may or may not go to sleep, but she doesn't complain and at least gets in sleep formation right away.

The Animals

Maddie's learning how to pet a dog, but still does it way too suddenly, way too hard, and way too quickly.  And she frequently steps on his tail, so he'll whip around and bark at her.  She became emboldened early in the month after his tumor surgery when he was walking around with his Elizabethan collar and couldn't react quickly.  She'd put things in the collar and he was helpless to resist.  But he feels he needs to be near the action.