Antics

It has been a while since I have posted a true Barley update! So here's how we're looking. According to her 1 year checkup a couple weeks ago Greta weighs a handsome 21 lbs putting her in the mid/average weight range. She is our little beanstalk and is still in the 98th percentile for height and the 91st for her head...good sized noggin, lots of brains.
Her favorite play time activities these days are climbing into her toy basket to read, stand, and generally take inventory of her stock. (I took these pictures with my phone, so yeesh on the quality.)She looks like the captain of her own little ship as sometimes she pushes her tub to various desirable locations in her room before getting in. Other times she is looking for leisure time and will just 'soak' in the corner with her arms on the sides enjoying the view.
But it's not all soaking in the tub for her, she is learning about those legs too and has been loving her new walker that her Nana and Papa got for her.She loves to push this little thing around, and sometimes we will open all the doors in the upstairs for a true marathon. When she's not pushing this, she is pushing her books, rugs, step stools, iphones (when she can get 'em) and cars around the room.
It's so neat to see her pushing around her little cars around and totally getting it!
One of my favorite new antics of hers though is how she talks on the phone. (I love that they reissued all the classic fisher price toys and brought back the chatter phone! I totally had this phone when I was little.)
She loves to talk on her phone. She puts the receiver up to her ear and one of us will put our hand over our mouth to 'disguise' our voice and she thinks it's the coolest thing that the President, Buck Shaw*, and The Captain of Fun has called to talk to her.
Actual phones aren't mandatory she will talk to books and toys too, and if you think about it her books more closely resemble our phones than this guy on wheels.
As for her health, she is going in on Tuesday for her kidney ultrasound and a talk with Dr. Margaret. Hopefully, good news!
And that's the Barley update!

*Buck Shaw is my 'Brokerage Professional'. The fictitious character I claim a close business acquaintance with, when I need a legitimate and reliable source for bogus information. ex: "Buck Shaw told me the other day that it is important for mothers to eat the last cinnamon roll...something about the folic acid being good for sharpening instincts."