Campbell is 13 months old!! Hooray! She is growing and changing every day. It is so fun to watch. Here’s what she’s been up to:

• cruising more and more! I have been trying to get her to walk only holding one of my hands, but she doesn’t like that! She will often just sit down when I let go of one hand, but if we are close to something, she will sometimes quickly walk over and grab on with the free hand.
• talking more and more! Campbell loves to imitate words she hears, so she has learned several words but she really only says them after you say them, not independently. Her newest words are bow (bah) and keys (kssshhh) and she has also been imitating some animal sounds. She still loves to say hi all the time and she also loves to say uh-oh. She is really working hard on that oh sound. She really over enunciates the oh, which is really cute.
• slow eater! Campbell is not really a picky eater but she isn’t a super eater either. She likes to just pick at things and it usually takes her a loooong time to finish a meal.
• Campbell just learned how to crawl up the stairs, which is just awesome timing since I am soooo busy with school work right now!! Aaah!! I am quickly trying to teach her how to back down the stairs safely. She can go down one stair but then she doesn’t quite realize she isn’t on solid ground yet!
• I have been working with her on pointing to her head, mouth, ears, eyes, nose, etc. I say, “where are your eyes?” and she bats her eyes. Very cute! When I ask her where her mouth is, she babbles while hitting her mouth with her hand so that she makes a “babababababa” sound. This is usually so fun that I can’t get her to point anywhere else!
• She loves to imitate what she sees us doing. Whenever I put lotion on my hands, she gets a gleeful look and starts rubbing her hands together. And if she sees Sam doing some funny dance, she’ll start doing her best approximation of it too.
• way more into books! She really likes reading with us now, especially lift the flap books. (Actually, book is another word she knows–bah). Her favorite book by far is “Where is Baby’s Belly Button?” She gets SO excited when we read this book.

Can’t wait to see what she is up to by next month! Here are some pictures from the last few weeks. We love you Cam-Cam!