She is very proud of this new development. She uses it to bite her toys and any other object that is lucky enough to find is way into her mouth. She already is working on #2 and cannot wait to test her new little chompers out on those other babies that steal her toys at playgroups.Then we have the sippy cup.
Its so fun to drink from that the process is often lengthy and messy. There is a lot of shaking, bouncing, wiggling and laughing ... but eventually what does not spill all over her face and chest ends up in her belly. 
Recently she has been practicing her push-ups. Not the baby kind of push up, but a big girl kind of push up. She looks like this baby, but her bottom is much lower. Its more true to form. She actually was watching my exercise class do both push ups and planks this morning and she kept doing her push up position. I think all of my exercising is starting to rub off on her (hopefully she doesnt notice that after I exercise I generally have a latte and pastry).
The past few days there have been a few moments where we thought she might have been waving. Its a flimsy arm movement that has been timed close to when we were encouraging her to wave, so we figured that she was sort of waving ... but werent sure. Today I was sure. She waved. She doesnt do it all of the time and its a new skill she still has yet to perfect ... but we are excited nonetheless. Right now its just an imitation thing, but before long she'll be using it as a greeting :)Other New Skills
She also has learned another few things. She has been doing a motor boat sound, which is a step up from the raspberries. She used to just blow a bunch of spit ... now she blows a bunch of spit while also vibrating her lips (thus blowing even more spit). She also has added to her "vocabulary" saying ma-ma in addition to da-da and ba-ba. Every once-in-a-while she throws in a wa-wa or na-na. She loves those "a" sounds :) Still doesnt have a clue what they mean, but is learning to express herself in new ways every day! She is also shaking her head no. Like the waving motion, she isnt understanding the context of it. (Thankfully we are not yet in the stage where we have a baby/toddler that simply says no to everything). She shakes her head all of the time, and will also mimic us when we do it. Its become the fun game in the house lately ... we ask Brooke a question and watch her "say no" in response :)
