All About Alice

[lillibet]

- she is still almost-crawling: she can get up on her hands and knees, or she can creep across the floor on her belly, but I still haven't seen what I would call crawling

- she can stand on her own two feet, holding onto things

- sometimes when she wakes up at night she sings herself back to sleep

- she weighs just about 17.5 lbs.

- she is babbling in syllables and pretty clearly associating "ma ma ma ma" with me and "da da da da" with J., but neither of us are claiming "first word" yet

- if you say "boogedy, boogedy, boogedy" to her, she rocks back and forth

- we're working on switching her to sleep in her own room, which is going pretty well despite our inconsistency about it

- she is continuing to eat everything we give her quite cheerfully, except for carrots, as long as it's very smooth; actually solid food is still mysterious and problematic

- still no sign of teeth, although the onslaught of drool continues unabated

- she's still got a very sweet temperament and is generally happy and cheerful; I don't know if it's just that we're putting more effort into it lately, or an actual development, but I feel as though she laughs more easily now