Miriam - first steps and first (bad) cold

It has been a while since I've updated about Miriam.  She's (slowly) starting to walk!  She's up to about 9 or 10 steps, but has definitely realized the crawling is still faster, and most of the time crawls if she wants to get somewhere in a hurry.  She's fairly steady on her feet when she does walk, although she moves quite slowly.  We have yet to capture any of her walking on video yet, as she quits walking as soon as she sees us getting out a camera. 

In other news, Miriam is still recovering from what has been her worst cold/cough yet.  Last week she suddenly developed a horrible cough (almost overnight), and we took her to the doctor, who diagnosed her with croup.  After some meds (which she really disliked taking, of course), her croup slowly got better, but she's still had quite a bad cold and cough for about a week.  She just yesterday starting getting her appetite back and had energy to play a little bit.  She's such a sweetie, even when she is sick.  She lounges around a lot more, doesn't have much of an appetite, but lets us cuddle and kiss her a lot. 

Miriam has recently been adding some new words to her vocabulary.  She says "all done" now, correctly.  For example, this morning I was trying to clean her face, and she kept pushing my hands away and saying "all done!"  Ha.  She continues to say "idada" (Hi Dada) and "itty" (Kitty).  She also says uh-oh a lot, whenever she drops something or something falls on the ground.  She uses this correctly, especially when she deliberately drops something.  ;)  We are working on identifying parts of the body now (she knows nose, but can't say it) and on having her say and/or sign "please". 

I don't have many recent pictures, since she's been sick and we haven't been taking any when she isn't feeling well.  We'll try to get back into taking more photos of her now that she's feeling better.  Here are a few recent ones that we do have:

Sick baby, sleeping in daddy's arms

Peek-a-boo!

Dressed up for a birthday party!