Abigail has learned to crawl, and man is she fast. It's like watching a little turbo-charged robot... a very cute turbo-charged robot.
But she didn't stop with crawling. She is now pulling herself up on anything that is semi-stable. She is starting to cruise around furniture... and her crib. She has also figured out how to climb the entire flight of stairs. We finally put up safety gates to contain, I mean protect, her :).
Abigail is also growing socially and intellectually. She loves to interact with books (i.e. lifting flaps, feeling textures, and imitating sounds). She is taking more notice of other's, especially children. She is also talking and making new sounds. She has had DADA down for a while. Then she started in with ba ba, la la, wa wa, va va, ya ya, and FINALLY MA MA :). She is still mostly just making the sounds for sounds sake, but seems to be recognizing the meanings of some words. For example, when we say da da, she will point to Daddy's picture (though she doesn't point to daddy if he is there, and says da da quite frequently throughout the day, but she is getting there). When we ask if she is "all done," she makes the ASL sign for all done. And when we say hello or bye bye, she waves (which is the cutest thing ever!) She loves imitating sounds and expressions, especially ones that dad makes. Whenever he clears his throat or coughs, so does Abigail. When he growls like Chewbacca, Abigail tries to also. When dad sticks out his tongue, Abigail copies.
We have also had some fun adventures over the past couple of months. Abigail has had some fun play dates with friends.
She has had her first exposure to the joy of swings and bubbles (kinda)
And Mommy and Abigail went to the Tulip Festival at Thanksgiving Point.
We love our happy, smiling, emerging independent girl with her cute two-tooth grin. It's hard to believe she will be one year old next month! I will definitely make sure to post about that.
