Baby Yamane

…our sweet boy.  You are contemplative, curious, squirmy, and loving.  You have no fear of strangers, but you also make them wait to see you smile.  You want to go.  Go across the room, up the couch, over our legs, under the table, into the refrigerator.  You stand with proficiency, but then you can’t sit down.  You climb Nana’s staircase and chuckle when you see where you came from.  You L O V E dogs.  You are thrilled to see ours every morning (your smile is pure joy).  You still drool intermittently.  You have graduated to finger foods and peas are your favorite.  You babble at different volumes.  Da da  is loud but ta ta is always said in a whisper (like you still need to practice that one).  You love to play with your plastic rattle, your book with the finger puppet lion, and your blue stuffed monkey.  You are in the 95 percentile for height (30 in) and 65 percentile for weight (20 lb).  We love you so very much.