How to tell your child's book is from an earlier era:

"Ha! Who are you?" cried the bear, turning around quickly in order to see better. "Who are you, if I may ask?"

"I'm Jackie Bow-Wow," was the answer, "and if you don't at once do as I say I'll shoot you with my gun!"

...

Then Jackie burst out laughing as hard as he could.

"What's the matter?" asked Uncle Wiggily, in surprise.

"Ha! Ha!" laughed Jackie. "What a joke on that bear! I didn't have a real gun at all. It's only a wooden one, with which I was playing hunt Indians. But he thought it was a real one, and he was so scared that he let you go. Ha! Ha! Ho! Ho!"

big girl!

Liza is still as cute as ever, and now she even does cute things! Today she was playing with a plastic ring and decided to give it to me. Five seconds later she wanted it back, but that's a start to sharing, maybe. We spent about 10 minutes handing the ring back and forth to each other.

We also decided to measure her today. She was 23.5 lb and 29 in, putting her in the 98th and 91st percentiles in weight and length. It also means that she is over the size limits for her infant car seat, so we have to buy a new one. The best one is apparently really expensive. Yikes!

Here is a message from Liza:
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Liza stands now!

Sunday morning Sarah and I had Liza with us before church, and she pulled herself up on some stairs! We were both watching her while she did it, and it was so neat.

This is a picture of the same thing that Sarah took today.

On the move!

Liza isn't crawling yet, but this is how she gets around now. :-)