Silly Big Girl

Danika is getting so big and she surprises me everyday. She is now walking constantly, unless she wants to get somewhere really fast. In that case she crawls. But her walking is getting faster, though still a bit...reckless.

She was so excited when she got into Auntie Jamie's shoes, with a little help of course. She tried to move around, but didn't have much success in that since the shoes are pretty heavy for her.

Danika's new words are "ki-ki" for kitty, "puppy", "papa" and of course she still uses mama and "ba-ba" which means just about everything else! It can get pretty confusing. It used to be that "ba-ba" was just her bottle, but now it is everything. It is basically the first thing she says in the morning, or after getting up from a nap, or in coming up to someone. Luckily, from the wonderful Baby Einstein "My First Sign Language" DVD, she learned milk in sign language! So now we ask her if she wants milk and she does a movement that looks like she is trying to snap. It works well! And she is talking more and sounds like she is actually trying to say stuff, so pretty soon you can call our house and she might talk you ear off!

Another great accomplishment for Danika is that she finally has figured out to hold her own bottle! Thanks to Katelyn Jacobs for giving us a Dr. Browns (?) bottle, she is holding it and drinking all by herself! My arm has the long needed rest, thank goodness! What makes things funny though is that now she is practically inseparable from it! She wants it all the time and has it in her mouth even when it is empty. Sometimes I wonder if she is drinking from it or just holding it in her mouth at times. Who knows. She is such a goof. Gets it from her Papa.

Today we had fun with Papa by asking him for a special gift for her birthday. I sat her on his lap and asked her what she wanted Papa to get her. Then I whispered in her ear and she whispered aloud "Puppy". It was cute, unfortunately Papa didn't quite catch what she said since she was whispering. The rehearsal went better than the actual performance. :D