13 months (3 wks late)

Rachel is a happy healthy 13 months old! She can walk, CAN being the operati ve word, but chooses not too. She takes 5 or 6 steps at times, but mostly crawls.She is chattering away - "hi", "bye", "done", "boo", "iam" (Liam),"isss" (sis). She tries so hard to emulate sounds we make.

She has adjusted pretty well to me being back to work, but after about the 3rd day (I tend to work 4 days in a row) she gets a bit needy. She thinks she is a big kid - wants to ride Liam's bike, loves the trike, tries to ride the skateboard. She is too big for her britches!

Little miss went for a ride on the quad with daddy. She had been playing in the yard with no shoes on, her helmet on as she had been on a bike and a sweater. So I passed her up to Bryan to sit in his lap, with no shoes on. Her little foot dangled at just the right spot to touch the exhaust and she got a nasty burn. This was 2 days later:( She is coping well, has figured out how to stand up and now that the pain has subsided is content.

Trying out Liam's bike