Five and a half months

Dear Maia,

You are an amazing communicator. At 15 months, you are able to try and repeat at least 100 words. We have a set of signing cards with photos of different images and you say out loud each of the words and there are fifty of them and you have been doing this since you were about 14 months old. Although your enunciation is not always clear or perfect, you know what the word is and you attempt to say and repeat the words that we are saying now a days.

Yesterday, you surprised me when we were looking at an animal picture book and you spontaneous said, "baboon" when we came to the photo of the baboon. Today, I was so surprised when you said, "I fall down," after you slipped on a piece of paper and fell on your back. A few days before you had been dropping objects and saying, "Ooohhh, fell down."

The other really cute thing that you do is when you hug something you snuggle it up against you and pat the object on its back or if it is a person, you pat their back. It is so very sweet.

You are such a happy and content child who loves books.