Talking...

Chaya has started talking. OK, it is not talking with words, then she would be some sort of freak of nature. But she is making sounds and she looks at you and makes them. Then she will wait for you to answer her back. It is amazing. She is amazing. She is having more and more periods of wakefulness where she is content to play on her own and then when she is bored she cries so that we will pick her up and entertain her. She loves to see me and David and Emil. And she loves David's sister in law Orly. It is so cute. We went to Orly's today, walked over there, it really isn't so far, except that they live on the ninth floor and since it is shabbat, we had to take the stairs. NINE flights, with a baby in the front pack. But it was good exercise and Orly, dependable as ever had some good chocolate cake for me to replenish any calories I may have lost!
Chaya is changing daily, I can't believe how much she has grown in such a short period of time. I told David the other day, during one of her crying fits that she is probably going to be a child who has temper tantrums, as it seems she already is. But she is lots of fun and it certainly cancels out all the screaming that she does! Today, thank g-d was one of her good days. May there be many more of them in a row!