"Dough!"

People say all the time that they wish they knew what was going on inside a baby's head.  I haven't really wished that so much... until now.  You've been pointing a lot lately and now you point at a great variety of things and say, "Dough!"  "Dough!" "Dough!" You are trying to express something (you are often quite excited about!) and direct my attention to these things.  I do truly wish I knew why!  We went on a stroll around the neighborhood yesterday just before bedtime and I think you pointed at a tree, "Dough!"  I said, "Yes Violet... that's a tree!"  For the rest of our walk you pointed at trees.  We stopped to touch the bark of a few trees!

Taking Steps!

Highlight today:  Steps!  You've been pulling up to standing for a few weeks not but, until today, hadn't shown any interest in taking steps.  Today, you did it!  You were standing against the fridge but I needed you to move away from it.  I turned you around and held your hands... you took three or four steps toward me!  We spent some time with our friends Marie and Oskar this afternoon and he is quite an accomplished walker.  Well, he can take a few steps without any support at all.  You watched him very closely like you were really getting some ideas!