The blur

Since the last post, Juno is now walking exclusively. In other words, if she falls over rather than continue to her destination by crawling, she will now stand up and keep tottering on. She has an interesting technique as well: this involves hunching her shoulders (for balance?), pointing both of her index fingers in the direction she is heading, and rolling from side to side as she walks like she is crossing the deck of a ship rounding the Horn. The combined effect is rather like James Cagney as a gunslinger advancing down the middle of the street towards his adversary... more video to come.

Her vocabulary is also increasing at an astonishing rate. She now has mum, ma (with a hard 'a' for max), up, hello, da (which is a variant of ta, or thanks) and bye - the last rather delightfully accompanied with a very limp wristed, yet regal, wave. The words she understands, however, run into the dozens. You can mention the oddest things, things that you don't really expect to be part of her world, and she will look around for them and point at them with an excited 'Aa' when she spots them.

Mum has been over this weekend and can't quite get over how much she has grown up and changed. If I look back over the posts and photos since we were in Oz in february, I suppose it would be more apparent to me too. As it is, it really just moves at such speed that it is something of a blur.