Abigail’s last couple months

Well, as everyone knows, the twelve month age is a big benchmark. They rapidly leave “baby” stage and move right into “toddler” stage. While it is sad to watch the baby months melt away, never to be retrieved, it is fulfilling to watch the little personality emerge more expressively. Although it will be some months more until Abigail can talk with us, she is able to let us know what she wants, how she feels, and that she loves us. (almost 14 months old).

Here’s a profile:

What she can say:

• Hi/bye-bye
• Mom/Dad
• Yes/no
• Bob the builder (come on, priorities!)
• cheese
• ball
• uh-oh
• woof woof
• sock
• baby
• whoa, whoops, wow, and other w- exclamations

What she understands: Everything. She’s a girl! Talking comes soon after breathing.
What she does:

• strews a laundry pile around in little deposits around the house
• gets bubbles all over whenever she visits someone in the bath
• chews Samuel’s lego wheels (and pretends very well that she isn’t)
• points, babbles, runs, hums, repeats rhythms, stands on tiptoes
• carries her cup around just in case
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• loves to roughhouse and make Tarzan yells on the bed
• plays hide and seek, peekaboo games
• pretends with toy phones, cars, vacuums, food
• likes to “help” Mommy prepare food, fill the dishwasher, sponge, sweep
• “helps” her brothers do whatever they are doing
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• watches Mommy very carefully when she applies makeup (Not til you’re thirteen, honey!!)
• sits on her brothers, crashes on them, rolls on the floor with them, hugs them, and generally sees them as perpetually huge stuffed teddy bears

Her favorite things:

• Samuel’s stuffed Nemo
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• Her bear
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• Lego wheels (told you about that already)
• shoes (no surprise)
• the phone (ditto)
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• her brothers
• Bob the Builder figures, videos

Socially:

• loves her Daddy a lot now
• has started to let other people hold her on their laps
• yells “cheese” for photos
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