Things I want to remember about 13-month-old Clare:
- She’s taken to walking like a duck takes to water. In just a few short weeks she is toddling/wobbling everywhere. She still crawls about 30% of the time, but she seems to prefer walking.
- One of the cutest things she does right now is when she wants to go somewhere but doesn’t want to crawl (she usually has something in her hands) and doesn’t want to push all the way up to her feet she’ll try to walk on her knees. Her little little legs aren’t long enough for her to really ‘walk’ on her knees, so she doesn’t go very far.
- Clare has always been a silly baby and loves to make people laugh. When she’s feeling particularly goofy she’ll crawl or walk with a little head and butt wiggle and song. It’s pretty funny and we generally laugh along with her. She loves nothing more than making us laugh, even most of the time she doesn’t even know what it is that makes us laugh. It doesn’t matter because once she realizes we are laughing at her she claps her hands, throws her head back and does her little wiggle even stronger than before.
- She is becoming quite good with her sign language. She signs “milk,” “all done,” “more” and “food.” Now we’re working on “please” and “thank you.”
- Despite all of her words these days Clare won’t say “Mom” or “Mama.” Apparently she sometimes says it when I’m not around, and she has said it to me once or twice, but she won’t say it to my face. I ask her to say it or I’ll point to myself and say “mama” but she usually just grins and says “dada.” Little stinker…
