One that takes more than one picture every 30 seconds.
Cecily started walking on Sept 3, while I was giving a piano lesson. She and daddy were playing and she took her first reliable steps without freaking out as soon as she realized what she was doing.
For a month now she's been taking steps alone, but every time she has become aware of her motion she gets scared and plops. Now however, she giggles. :)
She's become master of her domain and very curious. We've had to baby proof the entire main level now. And she routinely attempts the stairs with speed and vigor... Though going down is a bit funny to watch as she just doesn't trust that her foot is ever going to hit ground under her.
She likes to stand on her feet and bend over at the waste, put her hands on the floor and look through her legs backwards.
She can, of course, fly around the house on her knees. And we play chase in a crawl often, which elicits great giggles and huffing from her as she makes her escape!
She can now stand up on her own, without having to pull herself up. This started just this week (2nd week of Sept). She is 10 months, three weeks.
Lily has also started to sign back to us to communicate. Up until now she has only responded to our signs either positively, negatively, or indifferent. But now she is actively signing back. We are learning her versions of the signs very quickly.
She really loves her little tikes trike! She rids her motorcycle all over the house and makes sound effects. It's hilarious.
She also has a favorite book - Animals!! It's a padded, board book with lots of images of baby animals and she loves it! She reads it to us..
We are continuing her Eng and French and Sign and she is starting to respond to words very well. Some words she understands and recognizes better in Eng and some in Fre; I sign at every opp I get and so does Russ and Sav and she's showing good recognition and response.
She is able to point at a picture of Papa (or video) on my laptop and say either Hi Papa, Bye Papa, or sometimes just giggles. And this week I added a picture of my mom so now she is recognizing Grandma too... She recognizes herself easily and says eeeee (maybe an early version of Lily?) And I think we may have a grandma attempt - though it comes out "muh-guh".
Yesterday we started to learn to read the word BAP.
Look for an entry entitled to BAP for more explanation.
Russ is working all the time and I am endeavoring to establish music opps for him every spare moment I get. He was interviewed by a music magazine (see link below) and we are working on developing the idea of our "non-label" into a workable venture.
Lots more to tell, but I have little fingers trying to take over the keypad! This will have to wait until midnight or so...
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