What a doll!

Yesterday I was updating my mother about what Lexi is doing these days, and I had sent her this picture that I had taken of her, mostly to show Sarah, who is away this week in Johannesburg on business, the new outfit and shoes that I had bought Lexi while Sarah is gone. I noted to my mother that she looks so serious and poised in the picture, wearing those red shoes and holding a book, like I caught her in a studious moment. She never really smiles for pictures and doesn't understand that she should smile when a camera is pointed at her.

I also told my mother that Lexi is just so cute moving around on her feet now. I was sitting on the couch yesterday morning watching the news, and out of the corner of my eye I saw her come running out from behind the couch and circle in front of the coffee table and go around behind the other couch. And then a few seconds later, she made the circuit again. Later I was sitting at the dining room table, eating my lunch, and she seemed so delighted to walk up to me, banana in hand, to just pat my leg. Sometimes, like that, she doesn't need anything, but she just wants to be close to me or Sarah and to get our approval, which she requests with a big grin, and that makes it all worthwhile.

What a doll she is!

My mother told me that this was the most loving, sweetest thing she has ever read about a little girl and that I should print out my e-mail in which I had told her these things and put it in Lexi's baby book. Well, we don't really have a baby book for these sort of things for Lexi. Some parents keep a scrapbook or a journal. Our scrapbook/journal is this, our baby blog, which is our way of recording these sorts of moments and developments. It just happens to be public so you can enjoy them too!