While I was in Michigan (cheating on Piper Jane with Noah and Lucas) I missed Pip so much. I decided to get her some presents to show her I had been thinking about her. We went to a little beach town outside of Grand Rapids called Grand Haven, and walked down a strip of shops. At the toy store, I saw these little Calico Critters, and I got so excited because I used to play with them when I was a little girl. I bought Pip the bear family.

Piper Jane is so funny about toys. I showed her the box, and she was dying for me to open it so she could play with the critters. But once I got them out and tried to hand them to her, she covered her face all shy-like! haha. She always does that. But it’s obvious in the pictures that she got over the shyness and had a blast with her new friends.

feeding them to daddy.

She kept holding two in one hand which was making us cry with laughter.

She also kept twisting their heads all the way around, straight up excorcist style.

I also got her some robot stickers. They kept her busy for hours.

Yesterday (monday) was one of the best visits I’ve ever had. I don’t use that lightly. There are many visits that are fun, and there are some that are great, but then there are visits like yesterday. Pippy smiled the whole time, which for some reason I didn’t get proof of in any of the pictures, haha!

We just played and played. Nonstop. She smiled and laughed and jumped for no reason. I was in the middle of changing her diaper and she was laughing so hard she had her arms over her face. Again, I bawled laughing.

This is Piper’s most common position these days. She loves to be on her tippy toes, trying to reach something she shouldn’t be.

On Sunday, Jake would pull the stickers half way off for Piper Jane, and she would get the rest herself. I couldn’t believe that the next day she had already figured out how to get the stickers off by herself! And yes, her whole room is covered with robots now.

Nurse Dawn had this idea of tying this bag (that my sis Erin made) to Pipsqueak’s crib so she could get into it herself. Piper Jane Breinholt loved it. I couldn’t leave because I was laughing so hard at her pulling things out one by one, then putting them back in.

Piper Jane has changed recently. She is growing up so big and so fast these days. No year has she made improvements like she has over the last one. I’m amazed at her every day.

Here are a few stories and facts:
~She weighs 20 lbs
~She is frequently taking 3 or 4 steps on her own
~Her teacher was singing a song about hats and put her hands on her head, Piper copied
~At school, she moved a dress up box over to the bookcase so she could stand on top of it and reach something on a higher shelf
~She’s playing with toys properly…spinning, pushing buttons, pulling and banging appropriately
~The polka dot shirt in the pics is size 3T and it fits her (plus it’s vintage. how cool is pip? hehe)

And here is a video I made of Pip taking some steps on her own. I adore this video and I think I maybe watched it about 20 times. My favorite part is when Pipsey stands on one leg with the other daintily stretched in front of her (starting at 1:11). Enjoy!