Future geek alert! Maggie has been having fun unpacking the four boxes we have in our temporary home. It’s mostly Bill’s books and things that will be transferred to his office soon. But the graphing calculator and the lab goggles have become favorite toys and we may have to broker a deal with Daddy to keep them at home.
Maggie has developed some new skills since we’ve “moved in” here. She can count from 2 to 4 and from 6 to 10. She doesn’t like to start at 1 and she always skips 5, but she doesn’t necessarily think we’re wrong when we go all the way from 1 to 10. She can do a step all by herself with no railing support. There are a couple of steps in the house: one at the back to go out to the yard and one in the front to go down to the mudroom. She barrels on through from one end of the house to the other, going up one and down the other and up and down again with no supervision required anymore. And she’s started to correct some of her initial close-enough-to-understand-what-she-means words. For instance, “buck” is now decidedly “truck.” It used to be she would switch the inflection on uh-oh, so that she’d say uh-oh with the oh a higher pitch than the uh. Now it’s uh-oh, the way most of us say it. And a frog no longer says “(bite your lower lip and hum)-buh” but is much closer to “ribbit.” There are lots of other words too, but I’m having a brain freeze.
Another new habit is sticking her hands down her pants. It started out as down the back of her diaper, like she was aiming for back pockets and missed. Which is all fine and good and easily laughed off in public with a “She just discovered her butt. Ha ha ha.” (Unless there’s a dirty diaper, of course. Then it’s a little more trouble.) She recently began going down the front of the pants, though. Not as funny around strangers. We figure it’s like nose-picking and teeth-grinding? Don’t give it any reinforcement, positive or negative, and it will go away? Any advice, parents out there?
Magrilless 
actually i saw it up close and personal and still don't have any 'mom' advise to share. if this continues a few more years to college age, my guess is that she will autocorrect after looking around a bit.
I remember this one horrible moment with Hunter: We were walking Lucy, and I asked him to take his hand out of his pants just as we were crossing the street– bad idea. This resulted in a full-blown temper tantrum, right in the middle of everything. I remember thinking that something was really wrong with my baby, who has essentially stopped functioning and loses all control when faced with this challenge. And then, just like all the other stages, it slowly faded away and morphed into something else (I think the next step for him was inappropriate language)… Now he's old enough to understand the concept of private vs. public in terms of allowable behaviors– this makes these kinds of things a little easier. Sooooooo, my two cents is that your instinct to ignore it completely is-by far- the best way to go!!!