It’s a Duffy Girls Weekend! Dr. G is off gallivanting with his grad school friends, so my mom and sister have arrived to keep Abi and me company. One the one hand, she adores all the attention. She is showing off in every way she can think of. One way she particularly enjoys showing off is by crawling into her car seat box and then immediately turning around and poking her head back out, beaming. On the other hand, she is especially in need of hugs today and seems a little on the fussy side. I think she misses her dad and finds having new people in the house a little stressful. But on the whole she is delighted.

Mom, Shannon and I have been going in shifts holding her hands as she walks around the house. If she doesn’t have a specific goal in mind she just goes in circles around her play area. If we don’t hold her hands, she will either cry or try to set off on her own. She forgets sometimes that she doesn’t actually know how to walk yet. Some of her experiments are a little harrowing, like when she sets off across the concrete after her soccer ball when I am looking the other way. I kept her head from smashing the concrete by catching her with my bare foot yesterday. Not only was she trying to walk on concrete, she was trying to do it while dragging a beach towel. Grammy and Auntie Shannon were watching from a few feet away and they gasped. Fortunately she has become a pretty good faller– she knows how to shift her body, fall in stages, and catch herself most of the time. It makes me feel the tiniest bit better about her adventures.