Endi Baby

This post is dedicated to Endinakho who took three whole steps all by herself today!
Endi squawks. That is the best word to use. When she is mad she squawks, which is really just an intense cry/scream. She is 1 and ½ and chubby and beautiful. She is very close to being able to walk, but prefers to just be held constantly. Waving is her new thing (she does the typical baby wave, meaning she just shakes her arm around and her hand flops back and forth) and she has started saying “Bye-bye”, which actually sounds like “da da”. If you call her name she says ‘hmm?’ and she is very attached to me and the mamas constantly tease me about it. Every time I walk into a room she turbo-crawls across the floor to me, pulls herself up by my pant legs or my knees depending on the situation and then stands with her hands straight up and her head back until I pick her up. She has huge cheeks and when she smiles her smile is so small because her mouth muscles cannot defeat her goofy cheeks. She is not old enough to sit at the little kid tables during meals, so she has her own highchair and if you don’t strap her in she will stand up and try to climb out. She cries when I put her down and when her food bowl is empty and I once caught her trying to steal food from some of the other kids. Some of her favorite activities include: walking around in one of those little baby walkers, sitting in the kitchen in her highchair while the mamas are cooking, drinking from her new sippy cup, watching people vacuum, crawling all the way across the courtyard to the preschool, dancing, watching flies crawl across the picnic table and then attacking them as they fly away, trying to eat grass, trying to eat bugs, trying to eat dirt, bothering the older kids when they are doing their homework, trying to eat their homework, trying to eat their pencils, trying to eat their crayons, following me around, sticking her fingers in her mouth, and trying to stick her fingers in my mouth. She is a very happy baby and always wants to be where the action is. Love Endinakho.

kb

p.s. sorry for still no pictures! we are going to East London and Tally is going to try and upload her pictures there (they are much better than mine) onto her travel blog and facebook, so hopefully you can see some soon!