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Jordan now has quite a repertoire of signs! She has been signing “milk”, “light”, and “frog” for quite a while, but recently she has added “bunny”, “all done”, “eat”, and she can kind of do “duck” and “bubbles”. She understands the sign and word for bath, and gives a HUGE smile when she sees/hears it. She uses the sign for bunny around Boo all the time. She’s also pointing at everything to try to get her needs met. She can’t tell me with words what she wants to eat, but she will point to it. Thankfully the pointing is not accompanied by whining… yet. She has also stood alone for a few seconds at a time, and sort of taken a couple of steps while falling towards the ground. She’ll try to balance, then get somewhere else, and she can take maybe 2-3 steps before landing on the floor. I think she’ll be walking before her first birthday, though I’m not really encouraging her walking. We play chasing games while crawling, and I will get on the floor and crawl around with her at least a couple times a day. She doesn’t tend to try to walk much while at Gymboree, even though most of the other babies there are walking, and some are even running. One of the moms told me that within 4 weeks of switching to level 3, her son started walking. This is the beginning of the 4th week, and so far so good. I want her to get to 11 months at least before she’s walking, but I guess I can’t stop her if she’s ready! Oh, and another random tidbit- she imitated a monkey last night. It was hysterical, because she got her mouth in the smallest little circle I’ve ever seen while opening her mouth inside as big as it would go and saying “oo oo oo”. I’ll have to try and get a picture of it, if not video. Oh, and she was playing with monkeys at the time. I haven’t taken pictures in a little while, so sorry I don’t have anything else to share.