mak daddy time

No pics in this post, but it doesn't mean it didn't happen. Today Makayla and Daddy went to Bellevue Square to do some window shopping. These days, Mak usually gets excited to go out. She's pretty independent when walking around the mall. Most of the time she doesn't want you to hold her hand. This time wasn't too different, but sometimes she'll just raise up her hand to grab my hand, and it makes you feel "awww..."

Another thing that Mak likes to do now is walking up and down stairs. Not crawling, walking. And yes, with the help of us holding her hands. But she'll take steps up stairs like she's all grown up. When we reached some stairs at Belle' Square, Mak really wanted to go up them to the second floor. She used all her weight to pull me to the stairs. As we were going up, a lady said, "That's a lot of steps for a little girl!"

When we walked pass William Sonoma, Mak stopped, looked through the entrance, and then pulled me into the store! We had been in there before, so I think she might remember all the shiny pots and pans. This time she walked to the coffee maker section and turned all the knobs and pushed all the buttons.

Mak is also starting to discover elevators, so I decided to take it back down to the first floor. I pushed the button and the door opened, but when we went in it said, "going up." No one was inside, so I thought, oh well, it will change to go down. But it didn't. So, we made an unplanned trip to the third floor, Kid's Cove. Enter into a bustling crowd of hyper kids doing flips off of the tops of things, with parents starring into their iPhones. This was the first time that I let Mak play there. We've checked it out before, but usually it's packed with kids and I was afraid she'd get trampled. This time there were less kids, and pretty much Mak decided to go in to play whether I wanted her or not. At first, Mak was hesitant and clutching onto my hand, but she soon warmed up and started to have a blast! Of course all the bigger kids would run circles around her, but she was still enjoying herself.

Then we ended our time with lunch at the greek place next to Nordstrom. Coincidentally, our neighbor was also having lunch there too. They were surprised to see Mak already so big.

Mak fell asleep on the 5 minute ride back home. Life is hard...