where the action is

Jacob is building this little house out of a car seat box that I just pulled from the closet. It's actually pretty impressive - Pilchard is hanging out inside with the wipes container and a few other odd items, she's got one of Jacob's t-shirts on. Some decorations are taped to the top, including a 'stocking' he just made out of a kleenex box and two of Santa's reindeer (aka Moosey and Lion). He's all into the Christmas festivities this year.

Sabine is on the other side of the room, doing her little workout. She's on her belly, which is the position she has always preferred. She's so close to crawling that we're afraid to leave the room when she's on the floor, lest we miss it. She alternates her attempts between down dog (the yoga position with your hands and feet on the ground and butt in the air) or on hands and knees. When she's on her hands and knees she rocks back and forth, and just a couple days ago would throw herself forward, landing with a face plant to the floor. Now she's progressed to shifting both her knees forward on the ground at the same time then stretching out to being on her belly to get her upper body forward. The pulls up to hands and knees to start the whole move over again. She gets some good distance this way, it just takes a little time - I like to think of it as inch worm style.

There are basically two scenarios where Sabine is not happy. During the second half of the day if I'm out of her sight, she's pissed. And in the car seat - she still hates that. But if it's not one of those times, she's usually good to go. Sabine loves being on the floor in the living room, just playing around. She sat tonight with the top to Jacob's water bottle, alternately examining it and then sticking it in her mouth to have a taste, her little feet kicking in the air. But then when Jacob started in with his little house, that was where her attention turned. She spent the next ten minutes trying to get over to where Jacob was. She always wants to be where the action is.

She's cute when you're holding her and trying to do something. If it gets within a close enough distance where she can reach it, then she grabs for it and brings it right to her mouth. I'm sure this describes every baby, but they all have their own way of doing this that's different from their peers' and it's just so cute. She likes to bounce around now when you're holding her in a standing position on your lap, going from standing to squatting, not crazy bouncing just yet like some babies but she will soon. I feel like I have to write about these things now because by the time I do another Dear Sabine, she will have moved on to completely different achievements. For all I know she could be crawling tomorrow...