Bronte 1.7

Another month has flown by--I nearly forgot about Bronte's update. No crazy earth-shattering new skills or events, so here's a list:

1. I think I can now say that B can officially run with both feet off the ground.
2. She has many ways of making her demands understood, the latest & possibly most frequent of which is "I need a ___". She sat bolt upright early one morning & said, "I need a puppy". Then more recently, she told me she needed an octopus. Um, okay.
3. Her taxonomy of animals: bugs, dogs, birds. She knows many many other animal names, but when confronted with them in real life, she tends to use only one of those three.
4. Bronte loves to give people hugs & has thankfully stopped trying to poke everyone in the eyes.
5. This girl loves eating meat, including fish. If you combine what she & her brother eat, it amounts to a very healthy diet.
6. Unsurprisingly, B is somewhat obsessed with bike riding & asks to ride hers (got her a Bunzi) at least twice a day.
7. At her 18 month vaccinations a few weeks ago, B was entirely unfazed. Bronte wanted to breastfeed, so the nurse gave her shot while she was latched. B frowned, but that was it: no crying at all. 
8. Bronte sings all day. She's added a few songs to her repertoire this month; the Firetruck Song, Old McDonald, Happy Birthday, Jingle Bells (not sure why now), Octopus (aka Slippery Fish).
9. This girl is already pretty independent & starting to become a wanderer. I've started to really have to watch her closely when we're out since she recently mastered stepping off curbs. Eek.

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