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She can CRAWL
She had been rolling
and scooching
and then one day in January
she crawled for our phones that were
on the floor across the room
We don’t ever give her our phones
The forbidden fruit was the most motivating.
We hid the phones and she crawled
toward less fun things
Now she crawls everywhere
though not as fast as the older babies
at the programs we go to
She has learned to screech within the past couple days
So now we have happy screeches
Mad screeches
Excited screeches
Sad screeches
Tired screeches
Experimental screeches
She also pants with excitement
while balancing on her two feet
bent over, butt swaying in the air
hands clutching a nearby support
and smiles big
eyes crinkling at you
or wide-eyed as she talks:
“ba ba ba”
“ma ma ma”
There have been times when she
has crawled into my lap saying,
“Ma ma”
and looked at her father while saying,
“Ba ba”
But I think it is still her babbling
and not yet with purpose
She hasn’t yet named us aloud
Her hair has grown
Filling in the bald spot on the back of her head
The rest catching up with her mullet
and filling in the receding hairline, erasing her fuzzy mohawk
Her eyelashes are thick and beautiful
Her eyebrows full of personality
And while she nurses she closes her eyes
and gently takes four fingers and strokes her own brow and lashes
Sometimes bringing her whole hand up to tug on her lengthening hair
There is an outward notch in the cartilage of her ear that I trace with my eyes as I watch her play
and she occasionally gets golden ear wax
and the inner cup flakes with dry skin
and so I run a humidifier in her room
when I remember to refill it
Her laugh is a real laugh
a giggle
when I kiss her neck
and squeeze her tight
and buzz and sniff in her ear as she smiles
and use my nose to tickle her belly
When I start “This Little Piggy” she smiles big right away
and watches me as I make faces and change my voice
and braces herself for the tickle at the end
as the piggies cry wee all the way home
These are getting harder to capture her
So many details to include
to capture her every nuance
would require a 50 page chapter
per month now
She changes and grows more everyday.