Just some updates on Ona.  She rocks.  She’s 14th months now and is fun, fun fun.  She’s in mimick mode now, which means she’s probably going to start cussing any day.  My favorite thing she repeats is the result of “what does the owl say?”.  When I say “who, who, who” she gets excited and curls her lips into “whistle formation” and responds with “oooh, ooooh, ooooh”.  When in the car (which we sadly seemed to be in constantly this weekend) we “bbbbbppppprrrrrtttt” back and forth a lot, which is fun for everybody.  She also grabs the toy microphone and says “helllooooo” into it, after we do that same thing.  it’s definitely cute… and definitely dangerous.

She’s stringing two words together every now and then… my personal favorite is, of course, “hi dada”.  Makes me melt every time.  Though, I’m starting to feel guilty that she’s stopped saying “momma” entirely, so I’m constantly trying to drill “momma” back into her vocabulary…. which is probably doing the opposite.

She’s standing up on her own and walking around with the help of the little “walker” thingy.  Apparently, she has taken some steps in school, but not at home yet (she’s not out of arms long enough, probably).  It seems like she could do it, but she still seems unsure that she can.  She kind of stands for a while and you can see the light bulb turn on and she looks a bit shocked like “whoa, I’m standing on my own!” and immediately sits down.  She gets positive reinforcement from that one (in the form of hysterical laughter, it’s really more funny that it sounds… for real) so that’s probably not “helping”.  Really, we’re in no rush for her to walk, though.  Whenever she’s ready, we’re ready (errr, I think… which probably means we’re not at all).