The incredible Emma!

Suddenly, Emma is learning, and sharing, all kinds of new stuff! She's saying "bye-bye," something she hasn't said before (although she's been waving bye-bye since she was six months old). She recognizes red, blue, and yellow, and can pick them up if asked. She also finds random blue things around the house, points at them and says "boo." And she recognizes the star shape, and will point and say "staaahhhhh" in such a sweet voice.

I've worried off and on about her lack of verbalizing. She makes sounds for what she wants, and is great at bossing everyone around without saying a word. But I wondered when she was going to start speaking. This isn't a lot of speech, of course, but she's finally adding to her speech repertoire, and that's a big relief for this worrywart mama!