You are my fearless girl. Already, you can climb the main staircase in the house. You just take it one step at a time until you get all the way to the top. And I can tell that you feel like you’ve made an accomplishment – you didn’t get up there on accident. You squeal and giggle when you make it to the top. I do admit it feels dangerous to me. I never know what you’re going to attempt to climb next! You also try to climb in/out of the bathtub.

Your babble sounds come and go. The most consistent one is Baba or Aba. So Aba wants to claim that Aba is your first word. Recently you’ve also started to say Nuh Nuh and I’m trying to figure out if you mean Noam when you say it. I haven’t heard Ma sound again since the first couple of days so I am anxiously waiting to hear that one again, of course!

At this point you can definitely understand more than you can communicate. It frustrates you, making you scream and scream. Especially when you see something you want, you just start screaming – sometimes it’s in excitement, sometimes agitation.

There are things that you really like to do that we don’t want you to do like playing with shoes, crawling into the bathroom, or crawling up the stairs by yourself (you don’t know how to get down). So when I call out to you to come back, you stop, turn around, give me a knowing smile… and then… keep right on going. Occasionally I can get you to come back but it’s rare.