Malin is a master sitter, and can get herself around by rolling, sitting or scooting backwards. We've been working on the crawling thing but so far she's only gotten up on all 4s and rocked back & forth. She just cut her 4th tooth, and she's not a big fan of these 4 teeth in her mouth. She's been playing with these new things in her mouth and makes a silly bulldog face and has even started grinding them! She does think they are pretty cool to grind down the massive amounts of food she eats. Malin will track you down and insist you share whatever it is you're eating with her, and she takes it down no problem, even finishing big sis' left-overs. We love this about her!
Malin is a very independent baby, she can sit by herself and play for long periods of time, just looking over to make sure one of her loved ones is nearby from time to time. She still has a major stranger phobia, and won't let anyone outside of Mommy, Daddy or Nannie hold her for more than 30 seconds before she starts crying. She's become more vocal and has a set of lungs on her! At her first Husky football game last weekend she screamed her lungs out and drew quite a crowd! (She also gets a ton of attention from those amazing baby blues of hers. Every where we go I get stopped by people mesmerized by her beautiful eyes). I also think she is officially saying Mama (Mam, Mam, Mam), but it seems to usually be in her highchair, so it's probably more of "Yum, yum!" :) Nana recently taught her patty-cake so now she thinks she's pretty cool clapping.
She is such a good-natured, even-keeled little girl. She's also quite a cuddler. She greets us in the morning and when we return from work with the best snuggles as she sucks her thumb. She's been such an easy transition into our little family, and we couldn't be more proud to be her parents.
