Alliclaus has a few words in her vocabulary, although she doesn't use them very frequently. However, she loves onomatopoeias. Loves them! Words she can do without, but noises? That is where it's at.

She has recently discovered head voice and her new favorite sounds are all originating there. Whenever something falls to the floor, or there's a loud noise she doesn't expect, we get a "Mm-uh?" Super high and freaking cute.

She's been doing dog noises for awhile (guau-guau - all animals speak Spanish in our house), but she's recently decided that Salem is talking to her and that she should respond. "Miau." Currently, her cat noise sounds more like "mau," but sometimes she gets the "i" sound in there. It's super high and she's super excited to share it with us at every available moment.

So this morning, she totally slept in (and by slept in, I mean that she slept until 6:30 or later, which is awesome) and I took a shower and got ready for work without interruption. Salem (who doesn't get to come into bedrooms in our home anymore since he has decided our bedrooms are essentially well-decorated litterboxes) was sitting outside our bedroom door meowing. Up until this point, neither Andrés nor I had even heard Alliclaus stirring in her crib, but we heard clear as a bell through the monitor, her little voice say, "miau." No fussing or stirring. She just heard Salem and responded. She did it over and over again as I finished my morning routine. It was all I could do to force myself to go to work.

She's also started walking (just a day after her doctor's appointment), but only if we trick her into doing it. She's always so proud of herself once she stops, but is then suspicious of any movements we make. And really, who can blame her? We're shady characters around here.

Incidentally, the ultrasound is this morning to figure out when this baby is coming and to make sure it's alone in there (oh, it better be). I'll keep you guys posted if anything eventful happens. My guess? The relative lack of morning sickness with this pregnancy is to blame for the ridiculousness of my belly. Throwing up twice a week is SO not as good a weight maintenance plan as throwing up twice a day.