Anlee's Favorite Things...and Not So Favorite Things (10 Months)

Favorite Things:

• Pacifier -  Like a crackhead needs crack, Anlee needs her paci. If it's laying on the ground, she picks it up. If it's sitting on top of a table, she'll climb Mt. Everest to reach it. If it's in another room, she's in a long distance relationship...with a hole in her heart until they are finally reunited.
• Climbing Stairs - She does this literally all day. ALL DAY. She goes up, she goes up, she goes up, but hasn't quite learned the safe way down. So until we get a football helmet to fit her noggin, she'll always be well supervised around inclined planes.
• Playing Peekaboo - It's no longer a one-sided game. Every adult knows that weird lonely feeling: "I just Peekabooed but the baby hasn't been looking for 10 minutes. Am I schizophrenic?" Anlee now loves to hold a blanket over her own eyes and drop it with the biggest smile you've ever seen. 
• Balls - From basketballs to volleyballs, from fluffy to rattling spheres, Anlee loves them all. She learned at a very young age (six months) how to play catch by rolling a basketball. Now she's intentionally dunking a basketball in a mini-hoop. Next up, free throws Dwight Howard!
• Mickey Mouse Clubhouse - More specifically, the "Hot Dog" song they play at the end of every show. It doesn't matter where she's at or what she's doing, if she hears those familiar tunes...she starts bouncing. Hopefully she starts learning some rhythm and we can make millions being the parents of the youngest dancer in the next, inevitable Step Up sequel.

Not So Favorite Things:

• Sitting Still - No way, no how, rest she will not allow. Anlee craves motion, constantly. Even when she's asleep, she kicks her legs like she's riding a uncooperative horse. Which leads us to the next Not So Favorite Thing...
   
• Going to Sleep - Even when she's so tired she can't keep her eyes open, she still refuses to lay still and hibernate. Naps can turn into fights and bedtime is a curse word. I hope this is just a baby phase. If the refuse to snooze carries into grade school, what's left of my sanity may turn into cucumber best friends.
• When Mom and Dad Say "No" - Anlee is used to getting her way, ALL THE TIME. If that doesn't happen, hell on earth breaks out. Even something as simple as closing the baby gate can set off waterworks and banshee screams.