Another underwhelming blog....

Margaret, a few weeks shy of a year old, is just starting to take a few steps but is already flying her Air Hog Havoc heli like a pro.

Just a little driveway hovering on my lunch break. It was a little gusty, so it probably doesn't look like I'm doing too well at holding her still.

A lot of time has passed between these two
videos without many flights. I had a crash, and it took me a while to get everything back together and squared away. Since the first video, I've added a Castle Creations BEC and some Curtis Youngblood head dampeners. I also had to replace the main and tail blades, and the feathering shaft.

So lately Margaret has been picking up on little rituals and patterns in our daily lives.  For example, she knows that if I kick off my slippers and take off my glasses while holding her, that I'm about to put her to sleep, and she'll immediately start crying.  Luckily, she's almost always done within a minute or two of us actually laying down.

Although Margaret shows signs of being able to free stand and walk, she doesn't really want to.  Every time we try to let her stand or walk on her own, she'll almost immediately drop back to the floor and crawl instead.  When it comes to sliding, however, she'll climb a ladder without hesitation.

Margaret is just learning to play peek-a-boo. Her boos are really more like "bah", and are often fairly delayed. When empty-handed, she usually just points to her cheeks and/or eyes, but since she had a baby in hand, she just used that to cover her face.

Margaret has picked up a few new tricks since the last time I wrote.  She now has a 5 word vocabulary:

This toy has baffled her for a while now. Today she figured it
out. You basically have to shake it to rev it up, then put it on the
ground and it will go. The more you rev it, the farther it goes. She's
got it all figured out now.

Margaret sliding and swinging at the park.  When she gets excited on the swing, she kicks her legs!