13 months

Anya is now 13 months old. I've been a bit lax on posting this last week. I've been busy. In retrospect, I don't know exactly what I've been busy with, but it was very important stuff I'm sure. Here's the monthly roundup.

Locomotion

Anya is pretty good at walking, and walking quickly. It hasn't occurred to her to try running yet, which I am thankful for. It's coming, though. Probably as a Christmas present to us :/. Speaking of Christmas, we will not be putting up a tree this year. The bug is a climbing fiend. I just know the second I put it out, she will attempt (and probably succeed) to climb it, knocking down and breaking all the ornaments in the process. No stockings over the fireplace either. And no presents out. Any decorations will be way up high, theoretically out of her reach. She's bad, that baby. Apparently she takes after her uncle Brian (Chris' brother), who was a notorious climber. I've been told stories of his climbing feats, like how when he was 4(?) he managed to climb on top of a full-sized basketball hoop. I'm not even sure how that's possible, but please let that not be in our future.

Speech

Like I mentioned in the last post, Anya started a mini-language explosion over the last few weeks. That's still happening. She's picked up some words that we didn't specifically try to teach her. Like keys and flower. And phone. One she is finally saying (that' we' had previously been unsuccessful at teaching her) is "Grandma," but that comes out as "gaga". Close enough.

Other development

I can't really think of anything here. Probably lots of stuff. Oh. Chris was thrilled yesterday when Anya figured out how to stack all the stars on her stacker toy. That takes a little dexterity. Chris, what else am I foretting?

Food

I took away the bottles a little over a week ago. So now Anya is totally on straw cups and sippy cups. She has also decided that actual baby food is disgusting (except for the fruit that we stir into her yogurt every morning and her Baby Mum-Mum crackers). She only wants grown up food now. Current favorites (subject to change weekly or more often) are smoked salmon, edamame (she calls them mama, which is confusing...I dont know if she wants me or edamame), chicken, peas, and the Mum-Mum crackers. She just went through a big growth spurt, where her stomach was a bottomless pit. Now it's back to normal and she picks at her food and/or tosses it overboard.