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.