There are so many things that Amelynne has learnt in the last three months that this post is a little beyond me.

At nine months she was immobile and I could confidently sit her somewhere and she would still be there a few minutes later. Now she never sits down. She can pull herself up from any position, do a fast stomping pace around the furniture and she finally decided that she actually did need to crawl at 11 months so that she cross the gaps that she couldn’t reach. So she can now get everywhere that she wants to, and if you walk within grabbing distance you gain a little hitchhiker. My days are now spent in a permanent conga line of two.

Amelynne’s play has become so much more sophisticated as well. Instead of just holding, looking and sucking, she puts things together and takes them apart, and stacks things, puts blocks together and experiments (all while standing up of course). But the best toys of all nowadays are books. She loves being read to but also spends a lot of time just looking through them by herself. Nearly every time I wonder what she is doing because she is still and quiet, she’s browsing through a stack of books.

While she hasn’t said any more actual words, her language has developed so much. It’s very clear that she understands the majority of what we say to her. She looks at things we mention and knows what to expect when we tell her what we are going to do. Her babbling has also developed a huge range of sounds and intonation.

Talking of intonation Amelynne loves music. She can’t resist dancing when she hears any sort of music and quite often actually sways and bobs in time. She will also have a go at singing as well.

Well that is a vague attempt to record what Amelynne is up to but she is just learning and changing day by day and week by week at the moment. It’s such an exciting time as she is so eager to explore and learn.