Still Larval?
The Larval Unit is off to the races, as it were, toddling all over the house with gusto. When she was still just a potential Larval Unit, incandragon and I had a conversation about at what point the Larval Human goes into a different stage of metamorphosis. Is it when she starts crawling? Questionable, but now that she's walking, it's probably a pretty safe bet that she's no longer a grub.
Maybe a nymph? Nymph Unit? That might be taken wrong. She might be able to pull off "Larval" until she gets verbal. I've sort of started testing out thinking of her as The Moppet, but I don't know if that will stick.
In the meantime, as I mentioned, she's toddling around the house, answering various objects she finds by picking them up, holding them to her ear, and saying, "Aww-wo?" (for the non-parents out there, that's "Hello?"). She's also quite proficient at "Uh-oh!" which, for her, constitutes the appropriate response for a broad array of situations. Much broader than you'd think, actually. She will also periodically muster a lilting, "Dek-yuu" when you hand her something (Translation: Thank you!). The cats are horrified at her mobility, but she's actually doing pretty good with the whole "Gentle!" thing when they fail to move out of range.
The other night, we were in the kitchen cooking dinner, and she crawled up the stairs into the kitchen and started rummaging through the recycling. She managed to come up with an empty wine bottle, at which point she started toddling off out of the kitchen, her prize gripped firmly in hand. The spectacle of her weaving gait combined with a wine bottle half her height was a fine photo op, but alas by the time I retrieved my camera she'd lost interest in her hobo-ish activities. Probably just as well, since if I'd posted that video there's probably an even chance someone who doesn't know me would report me to CPS or something.
In any case, it's an interesting (and messy) time around here.
Maybe a nymph? Nymph Unit? That might be taken wrong. She might be able to pull off "Larval" until she gets verbal. I've sort of started testing out thinking of her as The Moppet, but I don't know if that will stick.
In the meantime, as I mentioned, she's toddling around the house, answering various objects she finds by picking them up, holding them to her ear, and saying, "Aww-wo?" (for the non-parents out there, that's "Hello?"). She's also quite proficient at "Uh-oh!" which, for her, constitutes the appropriate response for a broad array of situations. Much broader than you'd think, actually. She will also periodically muster a lilting, "Dek-yuu" when you hand her something (Translation: Thank you!). The cats are horrified at her mobility, but she's actually doing pretty good with the whole "Gentle!" thing when they fail to move out of range.
The other night, we were in the kitchen cooking dinner, and she crawled up the stairs into the kitchen and started rummaging through the recycling. She managed to come up with an empty wine bottle, at which point she started toddling off out of the kitchen, her prize gripped firmly in hand. The spectacle of her weaving gait combined with a wine bottle half her height was a fine photo op, but alas by the time I retrieved my camera she'd lost interest in her hobo-ish activities. Probably just as well, since if I'd posted that video there's probably an even chance someone who doesn't know me would report me to CPS or something.
In any case, it's an interesting (and messy) time around here.