Tatiana did the cutest thing last night!  It was late at night, I was on the computer and Tatiana and Scotland were in the mancave.  Tatiana crawled into the bedroom, looked at me, and then kept crawling to the bed!  It was sooo cute.  She wanted to make sure I knew she wanted milk.  When I nursed her, I used a pillow as a sort of blanket.  When she was done nursing she put her arm around it and fell asleep.  Scotland said we looked very cute both sleeping with an arm around a pillow. 

Today we went to the library for the song/story time.  She is the cutest baby there.  She ate chicken enchiladas with mommy for dinner. 

Mom and Dad came to visit.  Or, I guess I should say Grandpa and Gram.  It was a really excellent visit.  Tatiana is mostly over her Mommy phase.  When it was naptime she wanted mommy.  Otherwise, I think she played the entire time with them.  Dad said that while I was in the bedroom, Tatiana looked down the hallway for me, then sort of shrugged when she didn't see me.  Mom and Tatiana had the biggest laugh playing Peek-a-boo. 

Yesterday evening she did something for the first time.  She crawled out of the room I was in, and it wasn't to Scotland.  It was to go exploring. 

This morning we went to the Mom group at the church.  Boy, was that hard to get there at 9:30am.  They are so nice.  We won't see them until the fall. 

This afternoon I brought the play table into the dining room.  My hope was that she would play while I sewed.  She immediately went to the Herbert plant and tried to eat the pistachio nut shells.  I thought to myself, "This is a good opportunity to use 'No'."  So, I told her No, while I pulled her hand away.  She laughed at me!  I thought maybe it was because I wasn't saying it seriously enough.  Nope.  She just kept going back to it.  It was aggravating but she was laughing and delighted.  Later she was playing with Scotland in the mancave.  We figured out why she laughed.  He would say, "Oh, no!  You're knocking down the tower!"  So, he's not going to use the word "No" except to say don't do that. 

Yesterday Scotland brought home Christian's play table.  It was dirty in the way of used toys so I cleaned it.  There was a really small hinged cover that came off, and I couldn't get it back on.  I took it into the mancave where Scotland and Tatiana were.  While Scotland was putting it on, Tatiana came to investigate and was entranced.  She played with it a long while. 

I went to play poker.  Scotland said she seemed to know I wasn't there.  She didn't crawl to look for me.  When I got home she was asleep, but then she heard me and woke up.  I was glad for the chance to hold her. 

We had a ton of fun yesterday.  We went to visit Amber and Kellen at their house.  They were fascinated with each other, and kept looking at each other.  A few times Kellen reached out his hands to touch Tatiana's face, and sucked on his fingers.  Kellen has a couple of those standing toy tables.  Tatiana really went to town on them.  One of tables, had a hole in the middle where you could put a non-standing baby.  Kellen was in there, and Tatiana was standing on the outside.  Sometimes they were playing with the same thing.  At one point, Amber and I were talking and we realized that we are both a couple of months older than our husbands.  Then Amber joked to Kellen that she already found him the perfect wife, Tatiana, who is 2.5 months older than him. 

Tatiana was so adorable at lunch today!  What am I saying, of course she was adorable.  Allen got her some Clementine wedges and she really enjoyed them.  Scotland got her some Krab (looked like white fish) and she really went to town on that.  She also had some bean sprouts, she has enjoyed them before.  She wasn't as into the spinach this time, but it was given to her last.  She spilled ice water on me.  I'd just had time to look at the water and say to myself, "That is too close" and then she reached out to grab it, and it spilled on me.  I got a little wet and screamed a little because it was cold.  Then she cried because mommy screamed, so the priority became soothing her. 

Tatiana started doing something new and really neat.  Lately, right before bed, she has been playing with Scotland in the man cave. When she is with me that late, she is a little tired and a little hungry and I smell like milk.  They were playing "towers"  where Scotland makes a tower out of the blocks and Tatiana knocks them over.  She is adorable about it.  She makes sure every last piece is knocked down and apart.  He said one minute they were playing, and the next she was crawling away toward the bedroom.  I was done doing work, and was in bed reading and waiting for her to be ready to nurse.  She crawled all the way to next to the bed, so all I had to do was lean over and scoop her up!  She got lots of kisses too. She is so amazing!

Today she discovered velcro.  She was wearing a diaper I made that is attached with velcro.  She likes to fiddle while nursing.  She had a hold of the velcro tab and opened it, closed it, opened it, closed it, opened it, closed it, repeat.  I think she liked the sound. 

Scotland and Tatiana ate popcorn together last night.  He took off a few of the fluffy parts of the popcorn and let her feed herself.  She put it in her mouth and let it melt.  Then she gave us this cute smile.  Fortunately Scotland doesn't put salt on his popcorn.  He asked me to make sure and add it to the blog.

Tatiana and I went to Beer Garden.  It was nice to talk to Roger and Colin.  Curtis held Tatiana and was gaga for her.  I think she liked his facial hair.  She was also able to look at me.  Roger said she is the best behaved baby he has ever seen.  He jokingly accused me of medicating her.  She is extra nice when we are out and about.