Spring!

The best milestone yet: Edith has started hugging. I love it! Nothing like those little arms going around your neck and squeezing.

Spring put in a first appearance here today, and we spent half the afternoon on the playground, in the company of the rest of the neighborhood. Edith is at an in-between stage with respect to playgrounds: too little to run around with the other kids (though she watches them avidly) but no longer among the infants-in-arms hanging out with the chatting grownups. So she cruised around the bottom of the slides, and we went up to the top of one piece of equipment and watched other kids through the bars. The playground seemed to inspire some good walking practice, too. It's covered with woodchips, and she quickly discovered that crawling on woodchips isn't so comfortable on one's palms. So she stayed upright, and without a push walker, decided to hold onto my fingers instead. She was getting close!

Then her buddy Harrison came out to the swings, and they definitely recognized each other. She burst into a grin when we went over to greet him, and he held out his hands, and they proceeded to jabber away at each other.

I'm looking forward to long summer days on the playground.