Babble! You’ve been shrieking and blowing raspberries for weeks. Then all of a sudden today, when you woke up, you were babbling real consonant sounds, like mamabana.

You’ve also been pulling yourself up to standing. So things on the coffee table are no longer safe, out of your reach.

I think Noam is afraid of you. You love him so whenever he is within reach, you try to grab him but you don’t know how to be gentle. So even if you are trying to give him kisses, you are basically mauling him, pulling his hair and pinching him. He does really enjoy bringing you toys, doing forehead “boots” and even reading to you.