Tara turned fifteen months yesterday. Lately she has been changing so quickly it’s hard to keep track of it all. She is just constantly in motion: getting into stuff, climbing on things, talking to inanimate objects. She can speak the following: Hi, bye-bye, uh-oh, night-night (nigh-nigh), all done (aw duh), Mommy, and Dada. Further, she can sign milk, food, help, all done, and bath. She whines when she doesn’t get her way, and in starting to defend herself from her older sister. She can climb up and down the stairs, and pretty much anything else with steps, such as stools and her slide.

Anna has been having a rough go since Jennifer got back from Singapore. On Thursday, she fell and whacked her knee pretty hard; she still has a big bruise on it. Also, she fell yesterday while at hip-hop dance class, whonking her elbow and complaining about it to the point than Jennifer took her to urgent care to have it looked at. It’s fine. Then, today she got her five-year shots, plus blood taken from her finger. She was totally nonlinear for a good half hour. At this point she has one good leg but the rest is in pretty sad shape. Hopefully the rest of the week will turn for the better.