The New Year: 2013

On the first day of the new year, I sat Taylor down on the potty in the morning, she opened the alphabet book she was holding and pointed to the first letter and said "Aaaaaaaaayyeeeee". It's startling the amount of change from our October trip to California, where she first began walking in earnest, and now. While she may fall or trip, her gait is steady. Taylor is now handing us books in the morning, and pointing to the dogs, frogs, rabbits and such that are in each of the pictures while attempting to say them. She's doing this in particular with a book 'Each Peach Pear Plumb', which was a gift from Elisabeth Von Halem - a close friend of Christia's [and by the transitive relationship property, mine too!]. A few nights ago, Taylor was up in the middle of the night as she is regularly now due to teething, and she said 'teeth' to Christia, indicating the pain she was in at the time. Hard as it is to hear that, it's wonderful to have her able to say what it is she wants and needs [even if all she says 'juice' 5000 times in one day]. Looking forward to more of that. ;]