This weekend my little baby turns one. I can’t believe it! How fast the time goes by. The last few months have been so much fun, watching her learn new things and put associations together. These are a few of her milestones and favorite activities:

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1) Walking at 10 months. She didn’t roll over until about 6 months so we were surprised to see her learning to walk so early. For awhile she preferred crawling over walking but has been toddling around a lot more recently and even has tried to run.

2) Communicating with gestures and sign language. We started teaching sign language (eat) at 6 months when she started rice cereal. She didn’t pick it up until about 10 months when she learned “more” in one day! Since then we’ve added eat, drink, no and carry. We’re working on “poop” and “book.” Gesture wise our little one has been pointing for a long time. Now she knows what she wants and will point in addition to grunt. Sometimes she’ll start babbling too.

3) Playing peek-a-boo. She’ll go around a corner and will pop her head back out smiling. If we respond she will start to run away and squeal. She also take her burp cloth and cover hear face with it and giggle until we ask, “Where’s baby?”

4) Reading. Our little one loves to read. Sometimes first thing in the morning she’ll bring a book over and sign more. Then when we’ve finished reading the book she’ll sign more again! We go to story time at the library weekly and always try to borrow new books so we (mom and dad!) don’t get tired of reading the same stories over and over again.

5) Tricks. Well we call them tricks- things like waving, clapping, touching her nose and toes are a few. She’s also just learned how to answer “how old are you” by holding up one finger. One of our favorites is the small bow when greeting elders and doing the cute pose (putting one hand on her cheek and tilting her head to the side). Lately she’s been picking these up pretty fast so it’s fun to teach her new things!