Dear Mai,
You are going through a whirlwind of growth and its awesome to be able to capture some of these moments in time. You might not appreciate it all as you grow older and go through that awful period of time known as "the teens" but hopefully someday these little glimpses of life in your first year will be more than amusing for you.
Let's see... what can you do now? You use your favorite word, "uh-oh", in the correct context. (Okay, actually you abuse the heck out of this word. It's not an "uh-oh" if you drop it on the ground on purpose only for mommy or daddy to pick it up.)
You know who you are. At least you respond to the "Who's Maya?" question correctly. You can also point to Daddy when we ask "Who's Daddy?" (Please try to resist the urban translation of that question) You also point to Stellie when we ask "Where's Doggie?" Poor Mama though. We ask "Where's Mama?" and you point at yourself. To be fair Maya and Mama probably sound a lot alike for someone first developing their language skills. Don't worry it only gets more confusing. You can probably tell from my posts that I haven't mastered the English language yet either.
You're starting to stand on your own without holding on to anything. You haven't started walking yet but you're probably close. I bet as soon as you master balance on your own steps will follow shortly after. You have started walking with the laundry basket. That was a trick your cousin Matthew did when we was growing up too I remember.
With walking around the corner so comes shoes. At this point you are not very found of shoes and give us this "what the french toast" type look when we put them on you. It's kind of like when you put socks on dogs. You just don't know what to make of it.
You're becoming a master at stacking your blocks. Personally I think it's pretty genius of you.
Here are some moments captured on camera for proof and documentation sake.
You are pretty darn proud of yourself with your stacking abilities.
Such a silly girl. I probably sould have edited that last one a bit but meh.
You're also starting to learn a few words in sign language. The most important one is "more." Before this the way you asked for more was by screaming as loud as you could and as high pitched as you could. (see the crack onion soup video for an example of this) Until those language skills come in more let's hope this sign language thing works for a bit.
Love,
Daddy