A: Wet Kiss

Kiwi - So yesterday I got my first wet kiss - a real kiss when asked. It only happened once. She is so bubbly and cute. And then there is the wanting to sit on out laps. If you are on the ground, she'll sort of back up to you with her but and plop down. And the hugs are lovable.

She's looking at books and has just crossed the verge of having us read them to her, although with exception to date of Moo, Ba, and La La La (a K2 favorite as well), she mostly reads them to herself. Today she was sitting with a first words book that had a smiling and laughing photo of a boy and a girl, and she sat there chortling and laughing to the pictures for a good 5 minutes.

There is little "more" and mostly "this, this, this," (pronounced "dis"), and squish (nursing) is ninga-ninga. Right at this very moment, she is sitting on the kids armchair flipping the pages to "That's not my dragon".

Dada is still the only consistent spoken work, but we get the occasional Mama. Its coming. There is so much comprehension. She already follows very basic instructions, like sit, and get down, and my god, she listens. When we are with friends and I tell her to stop climbing stairs, she actually does!!! Of course if she does not want to listen or does not like what you've said ... or you've taken away something w/o a distraction, she'll stand and cry to high heaven, and either slump down so she lands hard on her butt, or bang her head against something close bu.

I'm getting a this, this, this summons for books.

It will be nice to be in between the move and the arrival of our stuff. Its been ages since I had time to just hang. And I'll need to find a whole new mode as I'll be starting from ground zero.