Baby Kisses - And no more crawling

I just realized earlier this week, that Grace is no longer crawling. It's kind of sad to see the end of an era, but it's such fun seeing her toddling all over the place. This afternoon I took her outside, and for the first time she freely roamed up and down the sidewalks. Ok, not too freely. But enough for an 11 month old.

It's such a delight watching her delight in the world. At one point, a big ant scurried across her path, and she squatted down to watch him. I got a little nervous when I saw her fingers forming into that pick-up-a-cheerio shape (aka, the pincer grasp), but the fortunate little guy was moving too quickly for chubby baby fingers.

It was sweet this past Tuesday; there's an older toddler in our Community Group, and her dad was having her apologize to Grace after they'd done some tumbling over each other. She gave Grace a little hug, and made as if to kiss her, and Grace actually puckered up and gave her a little baby kiss too. She's never seemed to pay any attention to us kissing her, and we haven't quite gotten her to blow kisses even, but apparently she knows more than she lets on!