She walks!

Maybe looking so cute helped her to walk solo??

Isaac and Noa and I went to watch trains after coop camp today. Noa was wearing lots of sunscreen and a hat and I felt proud of my careful mommying. Then in a stroke of wonderful luck, my former yoga student Joan, who lives right there, and who I never see, walked out of her house. And even luckier, she's a baby physical therapist!

I told her I was ever so slightly concerned that Noa was taking a while to walk. She reassured me that Noa is perfect, just very very flexible. She did one little test on her foot, then put her down.

Two seconds later Noa took a step toward me, UNASSISTED! I told Joan that she must have put some baby PT spell on Noa. But I was really happy about it. So proud!

The Wonderfully Babbling Baby

My whole face is smiling!!!

Jeremy thinks this photo is too fierce, but I love it. I love the smile that Noa has that is so enormous, it changes her whole face into smiles, eye smiles, nose smile, I think her ears are even smiling.

Noa is saying some pretty fierce things lately, to go along with her smile. She now says "waa-luu" for water, "woof" for doggies, or other animals that look like doggies. And oh boy, does she ever love doggies. She asks for "woof?" as soon as we get outside. She calls Goose "Doose", or "Doose-a" when she is being especially loving. She asks for Goose sometimes when she first wakes up. Like she's in her crib and I reach down to get her and as I lift her up she says, "Doose!?" She crawls around after Goose, and if Goose walks away from her she says, "uh-oh doose"

In her own language there is lots of "wee-waa", and "pee-paa", and "buuring, burring." Her smile gets like the photo above if I say any of that.

Just to wax on a bit more about how awesome Noa is, she is insanely loving, diving into my lap and snuggling, diving into Isaac's lap when I'm trying to read to them at night, and asking for daddy at least 3 times a day when he's at work.

She's also vicious and pulls Isaac's hair like crazy, and scratches all of our faces.

What a bundle of a little girl. We love you Noa!