Freyja is growing up to be quite the little lady. She turned 14 months old on the 8th, and I just can't believe it's already been that long! I thought I'd give a little update on what's happening in her little world.
Shortly after her 1st birthday, she finally started to crawl, which I honestly thought she was going to skip completely. A week later, she started pulling up to stand, and then only a few days after that, she was cruising around the room, holding on to the furniture. Now she can walk by herself while holding your hand, or move across the room alone, standing behind her walker. I'm sure it won't be any time at all before she's walking all by herself, but who knows? These things take time...
We've also moved completely to table foods, cut into small pieces. This was a development that took place while we were on vacation in Virginia with Heidi. Freyja really is a good eater, and so far has eaten whatever I've given her without a fuss and with a lot of interest and "mmmmm!" sounds. The only food she seems to have an issue with right now is pineapple, but I'm still working on it. Ha!
Freyja cut her fifth tooth (this one is on the bottom) at the beginning of the month, and it looks like there's another one making it's way to the surface on the top!
Right now she also seems to be mastering some serious language skills. There are still just a few words she says...mama, baba, cat, hat, duck, hot, on, off, hi...but there are so many more that I can see she understands. I'll be saying a word during the course of a conversation, or I'll ask her where something is, and she'll point right to it. It's awesome! This applies to nose, ear, lips, teeth, foot, toes, belly button, hair, cat, dog, horse, duck, mama, grandma, grandpa, baba, shoe, sock, dress, hat, and diaper, just to name a few. She makes puppy panting noises when she sees a dog. She waves "hi" and "bye". She shakes her finger at you when you say "no". She claps and plays patty cake. It's so cute. It's amazing to watch her learn these things...
She loves to play with every toy she has, but right now she's particularly into her stacking rings and her shape sorting box. For a long time she could get the rings off (well, basically since she first used it at 6 months), but now she can skillfully place them back on the rod and put the shapes right into the hole. Amazing stuff. She also really likes music, and dances around while seated and standing when she hears some. She's even starting to "sing" a bit. Well, it's more like random melodic yelling, but you know what I mean!
What can I say? I love her bunches, and it's just been so great to see her grow and change. There is just so much I could mention, but I think this gives a good picture of what's been happening with the little one.
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Thank you for the update, she really is quite a little lady...
I am glad that she finally did crawl and did not skip it. Crawling is a very important phase of the body's (and mind's) development, so it is good if she doesn't learn to walk by herself for a while and crawls instead. (Of course I know, it is hard to "hold them back", especially if they scream that they want to walk while holding your hand. :-))
A month ago Timothy's vocabulary wasn't bigger than Freyja's, har-har! He blabbers all the time, with proper intonation, it's just us who can't make sence of the "words". But now that's beginning to change.
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