Baby signs

Eve is getting pretty good at baby signs
lately and yesterday even put together a phrase! We were
visiting with Jim & Julie and eating Kimball’s ice
cream (yummy!!). Eve, my little beggar, was standing next to
me, sharing my ice cream. She would point at the ice cream and
grunt, but when I said “do you want more?” she’d do the sign
for more. Then she started doing the sign without the grunting
:) Then she did the signs for “eat” and “more” then pointed at
the ice cream. I think that counts as a 3 “word” communication!
Good baby girl!

As an aside, I was a
very bad mommy. I was eating chocolate peanut butter ice cream
and we were talking about how Julie doesn’t eat chocolate now
because it make Molly fussy. We were laughing and eating and
after several minutes I realized that I was feeding Eve
chocolate PEANUT BUTTER ice cream! Bad mommy!!! Of course I
realized this just after she did her impressive 3-sign request
:/ I had to make her go beg daddy for ice cream. Luckily she
was really only licking my spoon, not getting much ice cream in
her, and either didn’t get any or at least not enough of the
peanut butter to cause a problem. It reconfirms my thoughts
that if she does have an allergy to peanuts it isn’t too severe
of one. I am still very eager to get the testing done so we
know for sure! And I’ll try hard to remember that peanut butter
is peanut butter, even if it’s in super delicious ice
cream!

1yr, 1mo

Happy 13 months to the little girl today.
She is smiley and “talking” up a storm these days. She’s also
cutting two more teeth (either side of her top front teeth) so
the fact that she’s smiley and happy most of the time just
shows what a mellow girl she is. We went grocery shopping today
and she was smiling and saying “hi” to everyone we passed. At
one point I put her down and she was giddy to be walking around
the store by herself. She even started walking along with
another family and the kids in the cart thought she was
adorable. I, of course, took her back pretty quickly :) She’s
getting better with signs and recently started doing
“butterfly,” “more,” “down,” and… I’m drawing a blank at this
late hour. She’s also trying really hard to make words and can
say an almost understandable “down,” “more,” and “hot” (just a
few from tonight). She’s mastered the word and sign for “hat”
:) She has also recently mastered finding and putting on her
own hats, so you’ll frequently find her by the door (where we
keep a bunch of hats) selecting one and then wearing it around
for awhile. She needs to grow some hair to keep that head warm!
:)

I didn’t get any good pictures of her
alone today, but here are some of the two of them in matching
dipes and playing on the bed.