happy new year ladies! AND beautiful bubbas of course!

Murph - am hoping the hearing aids give you some hearing for your poppet and can look a the cochlear impants for her. i know a number of mummy's that use basic signing with their bubbas to decent effect already at 6-7months, and their children opt to communicate that way as well as through words - i'm sure you would be looking into it, but i wanted to comment. i know some of the mum's find the signing to be more effective communication than words for their babies... to answer the question about E's talking - i'm pretty sure she is advanced with her words. she has a range of maybe 10 words that she uses clearly, and babbles a lot more - she is a very talkative little vegemite! she says mum, dad, daddeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, pup (for the dogs), boob (for drink - but it comes out very cute! kinda short and excited), ho ho (for santa - mummy is a bad influence!) oof ooof (barking back at the dogs - she started that one on her own!), hi, harro (hello) and now Kiss - the first time she said it i thought i was hearing things - DH was giving me a kiss while i fed her in bed. she came off, looked at him and said kiss. refused to go back to feeding no matter what i tried until she got her kiss - then happily fed. so we know that she knows what it means!

she is a very affectionate poppet - not very cuddly as such, but likes to be with people and talking to them. she will give EVERYONE a big glowing smile and can engage complete strangers with her smile and her eyes and chatter. have had a few compliments of late!

she is trying to crawl - kinda half commando crawling, but she gets around enough to be content. is loving solids and gets very excited when we put anything new in her. her latest "fave" is spag bol - with capsicum, onion, pineapple - she loves it!! and, given how messy spag bol CAN be, she doesn't make much mess at all!

ahhh, proud mummy waffle - should stop here now lol