Catching Up

No new milestones lately, just lots of continuing development:

• Fiona's walking gets stronger. She can now walk about halfway across our living room (and it's a big living room by NY standards, running about 20 feet long). She still needs a destination -- if she hears something on the other side of the sofa, she crawls rather than walks to check it out -- but she also doesn't need to have Mommy or Daddy waiting for her at the other end of a walk. She walks between her stand-up toys without prompting.
• Aunt Kathy is out of the country right now, but Fiona can recognize her photo, and even says something that sounds a tiny bit like "Kathy".
• I believe she's added the words "milk" and "book" to her vocabulary. She can identify her ears, nose, teeth, tongue and feet (though sometimes she turns shy).
• She's definitely added the word "Pooh" (as in Winnie-the) to her vocabulary. She has, and I'm being literal here, 4 Pooh dolls plus a Pooh hat and a box that's covered in pictures of Pooh, so this isn't terribly surprising. She's responded to Pooh for a while now; yesterday while Andrea wheeled her home in the stroller Fiona held her hat and kept announcing it was "Pooh!" to anybody who would listen. Yep: our daughter has discovered the joys of the American consumer marketing commercial complex. We're very proud.