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Two posts in one day!! Who am I? Design Mom?!

I didn't want to put two totally different topics in one post. I know I do that sometimes, but for organizational purposes, I thought I'd do it this way today.

Basically, I just wanted to share this video I got two days ago. I was trying to capture some of Selah's crazy gymnastics (they guessed this girl was 2 lbs 13 oz on Wednesday!!) But what I ended up capturing was the first real "conversation" that Abram and I have had.

Until now, he's been like a parrot or a mime. He either repeats things that we say or if we ask him a question he responds with a head nod. He won't say "yes", but he'll not his head all day long. But this day, I asked him a question and he answered! With words! Watch:



Yea!!! We are conversing!!

Just so you know, Quinn and Abram's favorite game is "I'm gonna get you", which is why Abes heard Daddy come in and ran for my lap. I'm the safe zone in that game. So it was excitement and not fear :)

There ya go. Talking baby.

Speaking of Dada: he gets a half day off today because his company is being moved to a new office this weekend and the movers are starting this afternoon. The office is even closer to our house, which is pretty cool. So this afternoon we are going to do some family outings, including going to Baby Earth and looking at strollers so Quinn can understand why I want to spend so much money, SLASH, Anaka can be talked out of thinking she needs to spend so much money. We'll see if we compromise or one of us ends up convincing the other. He's got his work cut out for him, that's all I have to say about that.
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