The thirty-sixth week

Madeline's crawling seems to have taken a back seat this week as she gets the hang of standing on her own. However, when she sees something she wants, she's getting faster at using her Army crawl to get there. With so many new skills to master, she doesn't spend lots of time on any one thing, but instead seems to switch between them every few days.

Madeline and I went to the gym a few times this week, and things went well. I never heard any complaints from her, and when I return from my workout she has been happily involved with some toy or another. So far there haven't been any other babies there at the same time as Madeline, but she still getting some time around noisy young people who are much smaller than her parents.

This weekend Madeline and Lacey are at the Oyster Festival, so I have a few hours to myself on Saturday before I go to work. It seems like these occasional hours alone quickly fill up - the time without Madeline quickly fills with all the stuff I can't do when she's here. Between chores at home, errands and (hopefully) getting in a longer-than-usual workout, I never seem to get around to actually relaxing for a few minutes!