Nova is Walking!

Nova pulled herself to stand at 6 months and 3 weeks, and cruised almost immediately thereafter, but she didn't crawl at top speeds until a month after that, shuffling the normal order of infant skill acquisition. Now, at long last, after months of warm-ups she's finally walking on her own.  

She took her first independent steps almost a month ago, and by this time last week she was stringing four or five steps together at a stretch.  Then, in the last few days, she's finally started to use this new "walking" skill to get from point A to point B.  

Meanwhile, she's had a runny nose and possibly an invisible tooth coming in and has completely gone off solid food, so she's nursing like a newborn, but it's all really very exciting.  

My mother says that at this age I had about a dozen words. I'm not sure how many words Nova has, or what counts. She hasn't said "baba" (arguably her first word) in months, so I don't know if she still has it or not.  She also says dog, dada, mama, and bird pretty reliably, and occasionally book and blue, or some sounds in that general direction.  She also says "Dat!" often, which I think is "that" as in, "I want to see that," and, "What's that?"  So, that's seven words or so, unless there's something I'm forgetting... like "ball" and Nana... nine words? 

And if there were an Olympic event in raspberry-blowing, Nova would get the gold!

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Unknown said…
Wah, so cute! She is a little livewire! I sense Kiko would love to have a raspberry-blowing competition with Nova, although, being almost three, he really ought not to relish it as much as he does! His latest great discovery is that fingy fits very well in nose, yuck!
October 14, 2008 at 12:31 PM
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