I haven't mentioned Aimee's development here for a while, but that doesn't mean there's nothing to report. Quite the opposite. We're really communicating with her now; she definitely understands most of what we say to her, and will respond to instructions and questions. Like, if we're reading her favourite book, and ask her to point to the eponymous hero, she will - and usually at the first attempt.

On the flipside, her vocabulary is beginning to expand. Her first word was 'Lucy', on her first birthday - but remarkably, we haven't heard her say it once since. Currently, her full repertoire of discernible words (as far as I can remember now) is as follows:

Shoes. Hiya. Duck. (Ba)nana. Yummy-yummy (ie. food). More. Bye-bye. Uh-oh. No. Baby. (Not to be confused with Bay-BEE, which seems to be the name of the doll she got for Christmas). Star. Fish. Dora (sounds a lot like 'duck', but she knows what she means). Woof (ie dog; and I only have my mum's word on this). Whee! Row-row-row (as in 'can we play 'row row row your boat...'')