Dear Mackenzie,
It has been one month since you turned one and you have blossomed so much in the past four weeks. It's as if you immediately jumped from being a little baby to a little girl! You have learned to do so many new things this past month and you have developed such a sweet, fun-loving personality.
New motor skills: walking a length of nearly ten feet on your own (you are such a good walker already and love walking all over the house--and it's so cute how proud and pleased you look every time you walk!); holding and drinking from your own bottle; stacking blocks; when sitting on the couch, turning over onto your belly and scooting off the couch backward; opening twist-cap bottles
New interests: pointing at everything, playing with light switches to turn the lights on and off; handing me series of things, listening to the songs that your dollhouse plays--you especially like the rub-a-dub song that plays when you push the button in the bathroom and will just sit next to your dollhouse and continuously push the button so the song plays over and over again
New cute behaviors: laying your cheek on the coffee table and smiling up at me; scribbling with a crayon and looking so happy while doing it; hearing us laugh really hard and laughing really hard along with us--I guess you don't want to be left out!
New growths: a tiny seventh tooth coming out of your bottom gum!
The biggest development, though, has been your sense of empathy. When you see one of your siblings crying, you scrunch up your face and whimper. You were especially sweet a few days ago when JieJie and Second GuhGaw were fighting over a colored pencil. Second GuhGaw wouldn't share it and JieJie started crying. You crawled over to JieJie, climbed into her lap and made whimpering sounds as if you were trying to commiserate with her. That alone was pretty darn cute but then you took it further--after you tried to comfort JieJie, you crawled over to Second GuhGaw, who was lying on his stomach and drawing. You climbed onto his back, sat on top of him and started yelling really loudly at him! You were totally scolding him for upsetting JieJie!
You are awesome! I love that you have become aware of other people's feelings and I really love that you had your sister's back!
Love,
Mom
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