Raine has been so busy learning all she can. She is such a big helper already. She throws her diaper away herself, wipes my nose, and hands us things. She has also been getting better at feeding herself and is now very steady on her feet. She has been really into trying on our shoes lately and she gets so frustrated that she can't walk in them. It's pretty cute. She has also learned to clap and wave bye. It is so fun how much she is learning. Her new favorite game is to throw all of her toys in the kitchen - not the funnest game for me. Raine is also really into fruit right now - not eating it, hugging it and carrying it around. Every time we go to the store she thinks she needs to get an apple or orange or some kind of fruit or vegetable. Sometimes she does try to taste it, but usually she just wants to hold it. She gave me her pear the other day and I made the mistake of biting some of the peal off so she could eat it. That seemed to take the fun out of it.
Raine and I got Dan a "Rogue" t-shirt and a "Future Horde" onsie for his birthday. I know, I know it is not his birthday yet, but I am terrible about presents. I get too excited and end up either having to give the present or I tell the person what it is. So, to avoid telling Dan what we got him, we let him open it early. I did hold out for like 2 weeks though. I'm getting better. The shirts are from the video game he is glued to so he thought it was pretty neat. Rogue is one of his characters and the Horde is the group to which he belongs, the bad dead guys I think. I don't know, I really try to listen when he is talking about it, but I really have no idea what he is talking about, so not much is retained.
I started babysitting for a new family today. Raine gets to come with me and we will be there 4 hours a day 5 days a week. Today was our trial day and the 2 boys (almost 2 and almost 4) seem to get along with Raine and are pretty well behaved. Raine thought it was pretty neat to follow the "big" kids around all day. The younger boy tried to kiss Raine a couple of times - Raine didn't see a need for more than one kiss. She thought the first kiss was funny and then he grabbed her head to try again (apparently he didn't get the first kiss in the right spot) and Raine tried to give him the toy she had thinking that would get him away from her.
Raine had to get 2 shots today. So, to cheer her up we played outside with Mo dog. She loves "walking" the dog. She will hold onto the leash as I carry her. She loves to point at everything now. As we are walking she will point and make little noises. Once we get to the park she likes to walk or crawl around and point at everything there. Today she found some little seed pods that had fallen off of the trees. 
We have a little park behind our apartment complex that we take Mo to everyday. Since Raine is now walking she thinks it's pretty fun too. The other day we were there and one of our neighbors who has 2 little lap dogs was there and Raine kept trying to get the little dogs, who were much faster than her. She thought it was such a funny game. 
This makes me wish I hadn't just 
