Updates!

Lots to tell...

• Alyssa is practically running now. Her walk looks less like a waddle, too!
• She is saying several words (and appears to connect the word with the object or person!) including
  
  • 'nanas (as in the yellow fruit),
  • bottee (that is how she pronounces bottle),
  • pretty (to mean anything sparkly or colorful, especially flowers)
  • Too-ah (as in my Mom, Tula!)
  • Dah-ee (which she screams when he comes home in the evenings!)
  • dod (the barking variety of pet)
  
  
• If we ask her if she is hungry or wants lunch, etc., she says "Mmmmmm!" if she wants something to eat! If she wants something specific, she'll point at it and say "Mmmmm," too. This is making it so much easier to keep her happy!
• She has discovered phones! She holds them (or anything else that she can pretend is a phone, for that matter) near her ear or her neck and babbles away. She even paces around while she does it (I think she's been watching Daddy on the phone... he's a pacer!) She has even figured out how to turn them on and off... nearly everyone who calls now gets cut off at some point or another.
• She has mastered the remote. She can change channels, turn it on and off, and even change the volume. We have to be very careful when we turn it on now!
• She knows how to turn on some of her electronic toys (ex: the Fridge Farm I showed you in her birthday pictures). She likes to carry it (and some others that "sing") around like a boom-box so she can dance!
• She is really enjoying the pool this year. She has become a daredevil and wants to jump out of our arms and put her face into the water. Time to look into swim lessons, maybe?
• She enjoyed the sprinkler at my parents' house over the weekend. Again, face right in the water (on purpose)!
• She likes to take the shapes out of the cookie jar shape sorter from Uncle Jeff and put them back inside. She can even get the lid back on if she tries! Now, if only we could get her to put her OTHER stuff back when she takes it out!
• She is imitating any sounds we make now... the latest is singing "E-I-E-I-O" at the end of "Old Macdonald."
• Height and weight at her 1 year check up (I know, over a month ago!) 29 1/8" tall, 20.5 lbs., 52.5% for her age in each.

I am sure that there is more, but I can't remember anything for the moment. The pictures are from Mother's Day, Uncle Jeff's visit a couple of weeks ago, and some other random items. Enjoy!

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