13 Months

Maggie is one month into her one-year-oldhood :0) (and yes I just completely made up that last phrase). No, I won't be as faithful with the month-by-month posts. At least I don't think I will. I definitely wanted them for the first year of her life. But I haven't posted in a while and felt like writing today.

This little girl continues to amaze me. Lately we've been learning where different body parts are and the sounds different animals make. She has ear, nose, eye, head, hair, mouth, teeth, tongue, toes, belly button, and knees down. Maggie loves to find your belly button too, sometimes lifting your shirt in inopportune places like a store :). She also is doing the cutest animal imitations :). We have elephant (she'll lift up one arm to be the trunk), monkey (ee), bear and lion (owh), hen (from reading The Little Red Hen, brrkk), dog (woof and a dog panting), cat (eowm), fish (just opens and closes her mouth), sheep (baa), owl (hoo), and bug (points at herself and says zzz). Maggie loves "Baa, baa, black sheep." Her version sounds like, "baa baa baa baa baa."

Maggie has also said a few new words like ball, duck, and JoJo, but we've only caught her saying them once. Her absolute favorite word is dog with a close second of dada. And she has started saying mama again, that one was on hiatus for a while. She was also saying 'dat' for a while, but I haven't heard it lately.

Here are a couple of pictures from this morning. She has become quite the daredevil and started standing up on her turtle sandbox. No, I didn't let her stay up there long and sitting on the turtle is all this mama is going to allow :).