Babies are funny

Waverly is now getting to the stage where she can really see things, and she is so excited about this development, that sometimes she is too distracted to feed or sleep or do much of anything except look around at the world. The other night we were lying with her on the bed, trying to see if she would go to sleep, but she was just looking at the wallpaper pattern, and then she would turn to us with this expression that said, "Can you believe how cool this wallpaper is?" And then she would look back at the wallpaper, and then at us, and then the wallpaper, and then at us, and then at the wallpaper, and then at us . . . you get the idea. Needless to say, the wallpaper was so exciting that none of us got much sleep.

That same night, I was talking with my little brother on the phone (who I guess isn't so little anymore) and I heard some noise in the background. My brother explained that his 14 month old daughter Lois had found a 9 foot piece of molding from their renovation supplies, and was thrusting it under the couch, and with each stab she would yell, "Hiiii-Ya!!!" Geoff said she was clearing the monsters out of the living room.

I guess the wallpaper only holds their interest for so long.