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Things Anabel can do:

• Say 'mama' and 'dada'
• Half crawl/lunge (she gets around pretty well)
• Pull herself up into a standing position
• Pick things up with her thumb and index finger
• Switches toys from one hand to the other
• Babbles
• Blows bubbles
• Stick her pacifier back in her mouth by herself (she's been able to do that a long time)

Things Anabel likes:

• HAIR!

She loves hair in her face. Loves me shaking my hair across her face. Love touching, pulling, chewing on hair. Laughs if daddy shakes his head on her stomach :) And she likes grabbing her own hair and messing with it with her fingers.

• Her ears played with
• CD's (one of her favorite toys, hehe)
• Baths
• Being read to
• Watching TV (loves it)
• Watching Mommy dance, hehe
• Balls
• Biscuit the dog
• Paper, cords and shoes (things i try to keep her from, lol)
• Peek-a-boo
• Mommy laughing
• Going to the store because mommy lets her touch everything (in less I'm in a hurry of course)
• Pressing buttons on the keyboard

Favorite way to fall asleep:

• Starring up at me (we have to look eye to eye) while i kiss all over her hands / or / her playing with my lips.

Other:

• Anabel has learned to swing in her Johnny Jumper. She has a rhythm. She hops forward, lets herself swing backward, the hops forward, and repeats. She is very fast at it. Boy is it funny!
• She recently got back into sticking her tongue out all the time.
• Also she crinkles her nose, squints her eye and bats her eyelashes, to make a very cute face. Sometimes she has the tongue sticking out with it too. I love it!