Monday, March 5, 2012

F is growing.

When F arrived here in Hawai'i six months ago she was just beginning to sit up on her own.  She also made cute "b,b,b,b,b,b" trill sounds.

Since then she has started and mastered crawling.  She can crawl casually in one direction, then when she thinks the coast is clear turn and make a speed crawl burst toward an open door where she is not supposed to be, like into T's or M's room. 

She has also learned to use her pacifier as a distraction tool of plausibility.  If there is something she wants to look at or a place she wants to be she will casually drop her pacifier on/toward it, then get closer while retrieving it. 

She also has teeth now.  The bottom teeth came in first and now she has a full set of buck teeth to chew with.  She also likes crunchy crackers. 

She likes balloons.  She shrieks and gestures toward them and holds on to them at the grocery store.  I bought her a "hugging bear" balloon at the store and clipped the weight to the bottom so it stood up on the floor.  She had a lot of fun wrestling with it and throwing it around.  (By the time I was going to take a picture of her playing with it it had already been compromised from heavy use.) 

She loves for me to carry her around in the yard in the mornings while I water the plants.  She will fuss at the door unless I pick her up (or V or T picks her up and carries her out with me). 

She is at the very beginning of walking.  She can stand on her own now and has taken a few tentative steps. 

Also, she is saying a lot more, but it is often hard to figure out what she is saying.  She has some pajamas with a monkey print and V heard her refer to it as "unki."  She has also said "geh" for geckos.  At the doctors office a couple weeks ago she said "ah wub u" (I love you).  Also, over the weekend while I was holding her and T was talking to me she said "ah wub u da."  (However, she has used both "da" and "ma" to sometimes also refer to T...?)


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