And lots of baby talk. Hannah is speaking in complete sentences, but I only catch the occasional noun. It's super cute though and she is quite animated. "Kiki" is a recent verbal innovation of Hannah's. She uses itto refer to blankets. She has a favorite blanket (with which she sleeps), but she enjoys all blankets. In fact, she has a habit of grabbing blankets, throwing them on the floor, and then lying down on them to test them out. In the event of multiple blankets, she will repeat this exercise to exhaust the blanket options. She has also been known to give this same treatment to towels, even small hand-sized ones!
I'm somewhat shocked, but Hannah has added "Bert" and "Elmo" to her vocabulary. We don't have Sesame Street paraphernalia at home, so it must come through her day care. She has also mastered some animal sounds, including some of her own devise. When we ask what sound doggies make she pants like an overworked dog complete with her tongue hanging out. She also willingly makes cute appropriate sounds for monkeys, cats, and ducks. And I taught her to "caw" like a crow this evening. We'll see if that lesson sticks...
Hannah is also a much more confident walker and I would say she's more proficient too. She now wears hard-soled shoes, and likes to clomp around in them, high-stepping and all.
She also has a mouth full of teeth now. 11 teeth have appeared with 7 seemingly fully grown in. She has four molars that have started to come in, and there are still gaps for the incisors.
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