I just noticed this blog post in my “drafts” folder, 16 months later (7/26/2010.)  It’s not much of a post–I probably meant to include some video or something–but it’s part of the record so I’m putting it out there now.

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I haven’t blogged in a few months, and now I have a completely different child.  I guess that’s how it goes.  At Christmas, she was saying some words, and she knew the names of the most important people in her life, and she would do signs that went along with a song.  Today she knows nouns and verbs and adjectives that she can put together in sentences, she can learn a name or any other word the first time hearing it, and she can actually sing recognizable songs herself.  Yesterday we went to the zoo and saw a bunch of animals, some of which frightened her.  This morning she told me me the whole story, about “zoo” and the “pea-tot” that we saw when we first got there, and the “ephant” (she was “scare”), and the monkeys and the lion that also scared her, and the bears.  She said “mama scare?” and when I said no, I wasn’t scared, she asked about her part-time nanny and her friend Nolan.  It’s not just that she has learned a lot of words.  She uses them to describe her experience, and even to express her thoughts.  It’s been such a ridiculously fast trajectory to this point, I am blown away.