boxed up!

she may look boxed up, but not really. she is on the move! she is walking everywhere.....all by herself. it is so funny to turn around and see this little stiff legged girl coming at you. the newest thing she has learned to do in the last couple of days is "clap." now that is cute. when she was doing it yesterday her hands would miss each other and hit her face, but today....she got it! and man, is she excited about it. all i have to do is look at her and she gives me the goofiest grin and starts clapping. it is so cute! don't babies typically learn how to clap before they walk?

the sibling rivalry has officially begun. i didn't know that at 10 months old alaina would already know that in order to get on mommies lap too, is to push and pull at kylee. kylee has been all about mom lately so every chance she gets she is in my lap.....well, alaina doesn't like that so much. she wants to be there too, so she comes over, starts whining and then starts to grab and push at kylee, trying to knock her off my lap. what a little stinker! so when i stay it's time to "share mommy" and they both have a half of my lap...kylee has to put her leg a little further onto alaina's side and gradually inches her way in alaina's space....hmmmmm...what to do? it's only the beginning right? this is going to be so much fun. i wish i knew what to do. pray!

i didn't have any good pictures of kylee in the box, but she was having fun with it too. she asked to play with it later that night and alan told her that she could and we'd box her up and ship her off to africa...she didn't think that was too funny. he kept randomly throwing out different destinations, none of them she liked, not until he mentioned new mexico. she just stood there with this funny look on her face like she was really considering it. today at lunch she asked me if we were going to send her to new mexico (she was ready to do it). she wanted to see papa and ohie!