Angelfish, 13 months (almost)

Her expressive vocabulary still consists largely of her sound for Clownfish and Tiger and HI!  She has a sound that sounds like "again" when she wants a book again, and she's starting to vocalize "more" when she does her "more" sign for food.  I think she said "bear" tonight while pointing to a fridge magnet of a bear.  And, during her diaper change this morning, she pointed to her feet and said something that sounded like "stinky" (she wanted me to smell her feet and call them stinky).**  She'll repeat other words with prompting -- BYE! Gunk--oo (Thank you!) -- but the rest of the time, she just babbles. They tell me at daycare that they hear her babbling especially when she'd playing with something -- like a puzzle -- like she's talking to herself, trying to figure it out.

I mentioned that we have the Buddha belly song.  We also have a song about clothes, or lack thereof. We often sing it when we're getting dressed/undressed/diaper changing.  Made up the tune, so it probably isn't as catchy. ("I have no PANTS / no pants on me, / look at me my legs are free!")

She's doing that awesome new walker stompy-style wide-stance toddler walk.  I've seen her take 10-12 steps unassisted.  Bullshark has seen longer stretches because he takes her for walks in the evening, and he lets her hold one of his fingers.

She has a cookie monster plastic cell phone that she holds against the back of her head, not anywhere near her ear. She holds it up and looks expectantly, and smiles happily when I say "Hello!!" 

Angelfish still takes off her socks.  But now she tries to put them back on.  This largely consists of waving her socks near her feet and ... hoping, I guess.  But its something.  ("I have no SOCKS / no socks on me, / look at me my toes are free!")

Ok... so here's my "my kid is awesome" moment.  Feel free to roll your eyes.

I've mentioned that she is obsessed with Sandra Boynton's Dinosaur book.  She also loves Boynton's Fuzzy, Fuzzy, Fuzzy book (left).  There is hair on the cow on the front, which makes it ideal for toddler carrying.

So... this has happened not once, but twice.  When I got tired of the Dinosaur book after the fifth time through, or so, I said "Why don't you go get your Fuzzy Fuzzy book?"  The first time, she crawled across the floor and picked it out of a pile of four books and brought it over.  Cool, I thought.  But she had a 1 in 4 chance of finding it, its impressive enough that her receptive vocab allowed her to understand I wanted to read a different book.  A few days later, the exact same scenario played out... and this time, she picked the Fuzzy Fuzzy out of her bookshelf!!  Yay baby!

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**So maybe a kid's first words are very indicative of what her parents say to her a lot? This may not reflect well on me.