1 year + 1 mo.

Whew! This has been a crazy month and I have a feeling that May is going to one-up April in the busy factor. Luckily Laura has been handling our wild schedule all right. Our home has been on the market for a month and we have a positive deal in the works but I don't want to jinx anything by giving more details! Needless to say, attempting to keep a house perfectly clean and being ready to up and leave at the drop of a hat for showings does not work easily with a one-year-old.

Laura is thinking so hard every day about life and figuring things out; you can just see her little brain working and it is so interesting. She continues to be playful and funny. Her communication skills are improving but she's only increasing her "nonsense words" vocabulary right now. She is more confident on 2 legs - not afraid to stand on her own but only likes walking with us or her "car."

Height:

Weight: Don't even ask. When I put her on our scale at home I swear she still hasn't hit 18 lbs. yet.

Likes: pulling books off the shelves, going outside, crackers, peas, anything with spaghetti sauce on it, throwing things, reading stories, sunglasses/glasses - on other people, opening and closing doors, animals, burping (she laughs at herself), eating snacks, pacifiers, swinging at the park, sitting underneath the end table, Elmo cd and open-the-flap books

Dislikes: people leaving, strangers, laying still for diaper changes (super annoying)

Any new tricks? Lots - knows about noses & can point to them, signs for "hat" and "sunglasses on head", uses "eat" sign instead of "milk" sign now when she wants food, makes cow and monkey sounds, says "doh, doh, doh" (not sure what this means yet), using "da da" more frequently, can squat to pick up objects and stand back up, constantly pointing at things wanting to know what they are, offering to share a snack and pulling it away at the last second to put it in her mouth