Cheese!

Her new favorite face.  It gets her attention and she likes that.  She squints her eyes and wrinkles her nose while grinning from ear to ear.  It's a keeper.

And, finally, some "real" smile shots.

Some of her other newer tricks that I'm loving right now are:

 -Snapping

-Pointing at anything and everything she wants and fully expecting to get what she wants when she points for it (we're just waiting for the above mentioned snapping to occur when she wants something)

-Saying "hi" (pronounced "aye")

-Waving her arm across her face whenever we say "peeuuu" as if something really smells terrible.

-Barking back at the dogs when they bark ("bah-bah" while blowing out her lips)

-You know that sound that the donkey on Shrek makes with his lips?  Ya, well, she does that and it is so funny because she totally sucks in her lips as far as she can and blows them out really hard to try and make the sound.  Sorry, kind of hard to explain that one.

-Signing "all done" when she's finished eating

-She's still fascinated with sniffing and since she's been sick she's gotten really good at sniffing boogers in and out of her nose the past few days.  She's also rediscovered her fake cough again and does it any time someone else coughs.

-I love when she is stressed, scared, tired or trying really hard not to be cranky because she starts running through all her "tricks" and uses them as her coping mechanism to help put on a brave face.

-Sticking food halfway out of her mouth while she laughs and laughs until someone acknowledges her.

-After 12 months of living on this Earth she has finally discovered that her legs do in fact go together and do not have to be spread eagle all the time.  She crosses them at her ankles and it is adorable.

This is not the cutest picture, but it shows her doing her little snapping trick that she is really proud of and her chunky legs finally getting to meet each other and be lady-like for the first time.

*More random picture posts below...