A few new things

First words
When we received Claire, she already said Mama, Baba and Dadda. She uses Baba and Dadda / Daddy a lot, especially when she sees Paul's picture or when he first comes home from work. She still says Mama but usually only when coaxed.

Before Easter, she suddenly began saying Kitsya (our cat's name) and Kitty. She consistently says Kitty now and as of the weekend, has begun calling everything furry Kitty. She still says Kitsya but not as often and it doesn't always come out as clearly as it did before.

Last Friday, she suddenly began saying Baby and seems to know what it means.

Favourite toy
Her favourite toy is a stuffed toy kitty from Great-Grandma Pauline.

New actions
Claire is really into kisses right now. She kisses all her stuffed animals on the mouth and even kisses pictures of animals in her books. The other night during a game of Peekaboo, she smothered Paul with kisses, which of course he loved.

She also likes to tease: she reaches out for us but when we reach for her, she suddenly pulls away and giggles before reaching out for us again.

Claire's not walking by herself yet but I'm convinced she could if she wanted to. As posted earlier, she's cruising big time and is now even cruising along the walls.

She did two stairs by herself last Thursday but seemed to lose her confidence when she lost her footing on the second step. She hasn't tried stairs since, which is probably just as well - stairs would mean big trouble for me!

For a couple of weeks now, Claire has been able to crawl (as opposed to pulling herself along) but often decides to pull herself along on her tummy instead. I did manage, however, to get a short clip of her crawling yesterday.



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