Diaper Pail

I knew it was a bad idea.  I never thought it was a good idea.  But I did it anyway:  I showed Avery that when you put something in the diaper pail, then close the lid and reopen, it disappears.  We have one of those diaper pails that has a little bucket, and as you close the lid, it turns the bucket upside down.  You reopen the lid and the bucket is empty.  Now Avery is trying to put everything into the diaper pail.  Today, after working to get her not to put her bib in there, I gave her a couple of wipes to satisfy her curiosity.  She took them, put them in the diaper pail, stood up on her tippy toes to look into the bin to see the wipes in the pail, closed the lid, then opened it, peered in and then looked at me and said "uh oh!"  It almost makes me not regret showing her it was so cute. 

The phase of tantrums is upon us.  She is testing boundries left and right these days.  I must admit that I didn't expect this phase to arrive quite this early.  At the moment, they're not too bad, but I can see our future and I expect our little girl will become an expert at this.  She's already made great strides in effective tantrum throwing in the past few days. 

She walked quite a bit more than she has before with the walker toy today.  And she walked a bit with me holding her below her arms - something she hasn't done since she first started crawling.  After speaking with Avery's birthmom (hi, Nikki!), we know that her brother walked at 13 months, so hopefully Avery will not walk before then.  Not before Mexico is my new chant!

Avery's birthday is fast approaching.  Time has flown by, yet has seemingly stood still.  We're very much looking forward to a small celebration with Avery's birthfamily.