Down-climbing

At one year and ten days old, baby’s vocabulary remains pretty limited. She has said versions of the following words: dog, mom, dad, nonnie (grandma), and Jesus – but that’s about it. My wife asked today if I was concerned that baby hadn’t added that many words to her list of late, and I said I expected a day would come when we would look back on her question and laugh.

Baby continues to show interest in climbing anything that can be climbed – people, furniture, stairs. If it goes up, she’s interested. I’ve made a point of teaching her how to climb down backwards from all of her conquests, and she manages to do it just about all the time, turning around and holding a foot over the breach, lowering it until it touches the floor and then maneuvering her body the rest of the way down with a plop or a gymnast’s landing, depending on the situation. She is always thinking, and now that she is walking you can see her think more than ever. More on that tomorrow.