The baby, she is adorable. Also brilliant.

She's been learning animal noises. She can tell you that a cow says "mmmooooo" and a snake says "ssssss" and a lion says "rahhhhhr". She can't quite articulate "buzzzzzzz", but if you say "buzzzzzzz", she will say "bee".

I pulled up a David Attenborough nature documentary about lions on youtube this evening because I figured she'd enjoy it. And as the lions went trotting across the screen, she reached out and said "rahhhhr!"

She will also come out with "mmmooooo" upon seeing her copy of "Mr. Brown can moo, can you?" or the cows in her big animal book.

She has a counting book that she particularly enjoys, and for a while now, when paging through it she's been saying "one, two, one, two" over and over again. I guess she hasn't quite mastered "three" yet. I asked her today if she wanted to look at her counting book - it wasn't in sight at the time - and she replied "one, two!"

Also, this week she is suddenly cruising (walking while holding onto furniture) all around the living room and around her crib. Must make with the babyproofing!

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One cabinet door panel soldered tonight, thanks to a productivity pact with salmonboxer. w00t! Although having put the panel up to test clearances briefly I'm a little annoyed at myself design-wise - I put more detail at the bottom when I was drawing them because they looked more balanced that way, but oh hey, the LIGHT IS AT THE TOP. DUH. XP Well, not much I can do about it now, really, unless I want to start over from scratch, and having got this far, be damned if I'm doing that. It does look nice, regardless.

Nothing else to do with this project until I can get some lead from the glass store to frame it, so: framing and finishing to follow probably next weekend. Until then I guess I will knit.