As Marin is growing up (tear) her critical thinking skills are really developing. It is so fun to watch her discover how things work. She has recently expressed an interest in climbing up on furniture. Normally, she walks over to the couch or chair, taps it with both hands, smiles at us and makes an "eh, eh" sound, in an effort to charm us into lifting her onto the furniture so she can run around and try to jump off the back. We have 
been discouraging her from getting up, because obviously the likelihood of her falling off and hurting herself is about 98%.Yesterday Marin decided to take matters into her own hands. She drug her little stool all the way around the corner, into the family room space, and pushed it over to the
couch. Then she climbed up on the stool and onto the couch. VICTORY! She was quite proud of herself and let out a proud, big smiled, "HEEEEEE!" From there, she climbed onto the coffee table.We watched half in horror of her fearlessness, and half in pride of her
ability to problem solve. Then we encouraged her to do it again so I could get photographic evidence for this blog post. I'm positive I'll rue that day.It is times like these that confirm that Marin is not a baby anymore. And that that little stinker is going to be one heck of a teenager.
