Update

I think an update is overdue.  Minka is over 13 months old!  She is getting really good at learning new things. 

For example, she was walking in the livingroom and our fully furnished non child-friendly apartment has a lot of danger areas.  Most have been altered for her but she's one and she's clumsy.  She hit her head on the TV and looked at me with a very sad face.  I told her to come over and I'll kiss it to make it better.  She obliged.  Then she realizes what just happened.  She spins around and goes over to the wall and smashes her face against it.  She turns around hiding her smirk of wit and shoots me a sad face.  She walks over, I kiss her and hug her and tell her it's all better!  Again she is happy with this result turning around for another headbutt on the wall (this time a little softer) and walks over to me and says "Ah Bear!"

She has also learned how to pick her nose.  Not just touch it and figure it out.  She loses her entire finger for a good while before we are reassured it hasn't shriveled up and gotten lost in there forever.

She also says EYE!  and points to her nose.  This one cracks me up.

She loves to eat.  I think she looks bigger every morning.  She is nearly 30 inches tall and weighs 19 pounds.

She runs all over the place and is getting better at holding our hand while she walks beside us. 

She is still very uninterested in the TV.  I am not sure if I enjoy this one yet or not.

She just started cuddling with us where she actually sleeps rather than getting so excited she's not in bed that she just runs around with a crazy grin.

She is a tough girl.  She hardly ever cries because she is hurt or does not feel well.  When she bumps her head or falls down she gets a look of anger and attempts to blame her pain on me as if I made it happen.  She will rub out the pain and continue playing.  She had pneumonia last week with a temp reaching over 105.  She hardly complained.  She wanted to cuddle which was unlike her but she still played and ate well.  I thought my thermometer was broken because surely she was not that sick.  The doctor was amazed that she had a such a great temperament.  She is now back to her normal self which makes for a happy family!

She still wears size 3 diaper and I am not sure what I will do this winter since she pants that are 12-18 months in size but I still have 6 or 9 month pants that don't fit her waist and literally fall off.

She still doesn't have much hair but she does have an entire mouth full of teeth, with the exception of maybe four.

She continues to be a dancer and a reader.

What a joy a toddler is!