Nine months!
Once again, I am bringing a very different baby back with me from California. In the last two weeks, she has exploded with skills, speech, and signing. Thanks to her Uncle Christopher, she has perfected the use of saying “uh oh!” after throwing things on the ground. I thought that a word we used all the time would be her first (“mama,” anyone???), but no - she hears “uh oh” once and now says it 5000 times a day - and very clearly enunciated, there’s no question what she’s saying. Here's an early video from the first day she learned it - definitely done without prompting now, and much clearer as a true "uh oh." She made her first sign this month, too. Again, was it a simple sign that I’ve used every day for the past 7 months (“bath,” anyone???)? No, it was “cheese,” a complicated sign that she’s only seen about 10 times total, because we didn’t feed her all that much cheese due to high salt content, and never really fed it to her by itself, only mixed in with