Tough little girl...

The thing that I am probably most happy about in the first seven months that Maia has been in our lives is how unphased she is by minor accidents. While laying her down on the changing table, her head accidentally hit the window sill. For a few seconds she looked like she was going to cry, and then she went back to trying to get the tube of Desetin.

She has an incredibly strong core (maybe it is the baby Pilates) and has been able to sit up and stand up for months already. However her enormously large head (that is my doing), sometimes causes her to shift her weight unnaturally and tip over. Rather than whining about it, she just sees it as an opportunity to roll her way across the room.

The number 1 thing I didn't want her to be afraid of was the water. Tubs, showers, pools, lakes...when you live in Minnesota you are constantly confronted by water in some manner. She is going to start swimming lessons soon, and will continue regularly until she can swim on her own. In the tub we have been prepping her by pouring water directly over her head from a little dish. She would sputter and spit when we first started, but now it doesn't even interrupt her play time.

I am really happy that I was blessed with a good-natured, tough little girl. She is going to need to be that way....she currently has four boy cousins.