+ Bye bye +
I forgot to talk about your cuteness Monday night. Uncle Chris stopped by to pick up a movie, and you seemed quite happy to see him. After a little chit-chat and baby babble, you let him head on his merry way. As he was closing the door behind him, you watched intently. He said, "Bye bye!" and waved at you. What did you do? You said, "BYE!" and waved happily right back at him.

So this is the point at which I should probably comment on my own motherly weirdness. See, I have these issues with mothers who swear their 2-week-olds can say "Daddy." So I tend to go to the other extreme. Have you been saying "Bye" in some form for, like, a year? Yeah, I suppose so. The first time was in the bathtub and it did accompany a wave, but it was more of a mimic sort of talking. I didn't honestly think you knew what you were doing, and I still don't. So while this itself wasn't a milestone, in a way it was. This was the first time that you, very clearly and without any direct prodding, understood to respond to another person in an appropriate physical and verbal way. You were being deliberately social. Incidentally, this was the same night you went on to nod about the apple juice. I just love being able to actually communicate with you.

On an unrelated note, I have finally started tackling my mound of scrapbooking work. Oh, I haven't actually done any scrapbooking, but I have gone through every roll of film -- and trust me, there are a lot of them! I've pulled out everything worthy of scrapping, sorted them into themes and ordered them chronologically. I pulled some stickers, die cuts etc. that correlate to some of the divisions so I can remember to use them. Actually doing the scrapbook pages might be a bit tricky with your certain attempts to "help," so we'll see how long it takes me to do that. I haven't actually done any pages since I was pregnant with you. Thankfully I did those then or I'd be more than 18 months behind!