The letter D

Cybele is by far the funniest baby I have ever pro-created. She talks incessantly as long as the word starts with "d'. Dog'n, duck, dad, down, and done. Technically down and done are parts of the phrases "get down" and "all done" which I swear I have heard her say. Nana recently heard her say "owia" and believes that she was trying to say Sophia, but that was a one time thing. I am surprised that Elias has not been one of her words because she is quite fond of him. Elias makes her squeal with delight and scream with excitement. You may not think these noises are too different, but the squeal is easier to listen to as the scream tends to get the big kids excited.

Cybele is also amazingly capable. She walks, runs, crawls, climbs and manipulates toys. She has an hilarious determination with toys that has finally convinced Tristan that toys do indeed teach the kids something and therefore deserve a place in our home. Cybele's favorite toy right now is a baby ipod that plays 20 second long children's songs. She carries it around with the same fascination that she used to reserve for non-baby toys, i.e. the remote control, cell phones, keys and wallets. Fortunately, the baby ipod, unlike Tristan's cellphone, still works after being immersed in baby spit.

While we are discussing toys I should probably mention that Cybele's current favorite non-baby toy is our treadmill. Recently we had to enlarge Cybele's play area because she was able to climb the wall and escape our smaller area with such speed that it didn't even make sense having it there. Also, I started worrying that she might be hitting her head everytime she escaped which I have heard is not a good thing for kids. So now the treadmill is part of her playground and she is on it constantly. It goes like this: stand near the treadmill and hit it with something; the baby ipod, drumsticks, a sippy cup, whatever, drop the item used for hitting and climb onto the treadmill via the smallest entry, get onto the treadmil belt and beam around at all of the admirers, dance, stop dancing and start running as quickly as possible to the end of the treadmill and finally climb/fall off the back of the treadmill and start over. It provides minutes of entertainment.