Babbling!

Anne seems to be crashing through developmental milestones at a rapid pace.  On Friday and Saturday Anne's "talking" consisted of sticking her tongue out and blowing with spittle flying everywhere.  She did this pretty much all day long.  On Sunday a switch went on and her speech changed to a more adult-like babbling with baa's and ahhh's and daa's.  It is so cute.  She sounds like a totally different baby.  Every time I hear her I find myself looking around for some other baby.  

On Saturday Anne was sick for the first time.  She spent an awful hour throwing up every 10 minutes or so until she had nothing left to throw up, and then continuing to retch.  It was so sad.  I was very tempted to take her to a doctor, however she had no other symptoms and after an hour the throwing up stopped.  She fell asleep for an hour in the carrier on Jeff, and then when she woke up she started eating again as normal.  Poor little girl!  

On Sunday Grandpa G gave Anne her first teething biscuit.  Anne loved it.  She gnawed that thing until it was nothing but mush.  She did likewise with a frozen pizza crust that Grandpa fed Anne at Thanksgiving dinner.

Anne is progressing rapidly with her sitting.  She often sits for five or ten minutes on her own without falling over and is perfectly capable of picking up toys and playing with them while seated.  She is also getting better at getting to her hands and knees, although her violent rocking back and forth on them has not yet yielded any forward progress.  She is far too large for her baby tub.

Here is a video of Anne eating a biscuit.  Her manual dexterity still needs some work.

Anne refuses to talk on video, but here is something close.