Mara’s Blog Influencing the world one day at a time since 2005…

I affectionately refer to her as “Little Luke In A Dress” because I see more of Luke in her appearance however Luke seems to think she has some of my personality traits. By those I think he means impatient and demanding…hehe

Recently she has discovered her toes and grabs them. But she doesn’t seem to be as interested (so far) in them as her hands. We laugh at the fact that she randomly stops in the middle of whatever she might be doing to devote a 15 second stare of amazement to her hands.

Still of all her activities nothing comes close to the enjoyment she gets out of her Einstein Mat. This has been the case since 8 weeks of age. The star makes her smile consistently, no other toy can do this. I swear that smile is so bright she could light up the city of Greensboro. It really is the cutest with all that gumminess. So let me take a moment here to thank my friends, Kay Miller and Kathy Laskey who gave us the E-mat.

This is our first week with the nanny since daddy daycare packed up and went back to work at RFMD. Our nanny, Kathy, has made mine and Luke’s transition from one of us caring for her, to someone outside our family an easier one. For this we are tremendously grateful! She is doing an excellent job picking up where we left off by doing the things we find most important like giving her undivided attention and talking with our little chatty patty….another trait Luke thinks came from my side of the gene pool. This is day three of having our nanny Kathy, and Mara already seems to recognize and stare at her which is a good thing. With Kathy’s permission we will take a picture of the two of them together and post it here by the end of the week so stay tuned.

Update: Wanted to add a picture of the feet exploration in action!