A new year

Hello all,

So here we are, a year has past. We took this Easter Sunday slowly, remembering where we were a year ago, trying to look forward.

Exciting things are happening. Today, Daddy was feeding Tahlia breakfast when she pointed at a mirror and asked for it. Of course, her asking is some baby babble with the sign for "please." In an attempt to teach her good manners, a couple of weeks ago, Mommy taught Tahlia how to say please with sign language. Whenever Tahlia wants something now, she says please -- which is so sweet. It breaks our hearts, of course, whenever she is playing with another little child and the child has something that she wants, and Tahlia starts signing please. Well, it used to break our hearts until the speach path the other day told us that what the sign of "please" actually means to Tahlia is "Mommy or Daddy, get me that thing that I want." So now, we are supposed to get Tahlia to actually vocalize what she wants. We were a little skeptical of this, except, while the speach path was here, she heard Tahlia distinctly say shoe and outside. Of course, this leads to what happened today. After Tahlia pointed to the mirror, Daddy asked if she wanted the mirror -- Tahlia leaned forward and very distinctly said "meerwoh." She also said baby and teeth today.

This week she has also really started walking. Yesterday, she stood up by herself in the middle of the room. She is at the place where when she falls over, she will stand back up and keep walking instead of the old way of falling down and then crawling.

She does another thing that we think is really cute. Sometimes, like today, she will lie on the floor and just look around at what is going on. It is really cute!

Thank you all for your thoughts and prayers -- we believe that they are helping Tahlia so much.

Love
Muggsie, Lauren, Tahlia