Student of Life

Baby can laugh more loudly and longer today than she could a month ago. She can stand on her two feet and be led with her hands held above her shoulders and walk thirty or forty steps (which is to say about twelve feet). She can chew and swallow food. While seated on the floor (another new trick) she can pick up two objects, my silver-colored watch and a green plastic toy, say, one in each hand, look at them one at a time, decide to put one in her mouth, and put them both back on the floor beside her. She can roll over toward whatever interests her, and just about crawl. She can say, “Mama,” and indeed does so forty or fifty times a day.

It’s hard to believe she’ll learn more than all this.