doggiedoggiedoggiedoggiedoggie

Dear Avril,

Your vocab is growing and growing every week - you baffle me with the speed at which you pick things up. This last week you learned teeth and car. it's getting so that i won't be able to keep track of this kind of thing anymore. Bath times were a bit rough for a while - you screamed like a banshee when placed in the tub - not sure if that was left over from when you had your bad diaper rash, but you seem to have gotten over than and love bath time again! you love diving down onto your belly and today you marveled at your boats, picking each one up and emptying the ballasts of their water. not sure how seaworthy the boats are but you loved learning the dynamics of the boats filling up with water and then returning the water to the tub! when i asked you 'done?' you definitively said 'done!' and pulled the plug! what an amazing creature you are! I took you for our first shopping trip together to buy shoes - Winnie the Pooh shoes, size 4. You LOVE pulling the velcro straps and chewing on them! I couldn't keep them on your feet the first few days and putting them back on was kinda gross what with the slobbery straps. We visited your granduncle Jim and grandaunt Johanne, and you got to see your great-grandparents again. You had a really good time, and you especially loved max, who you followed around saying 'doggiedoggiedoggiedoggiedoggie' (your favourite word - it's often your first word or last word of the day), which charmed everyone. I'm going to miss you and your mom in Baltimore next week :(