okay, so here's a cutest-baby-in-vermont update.

rory is now getting into the whole blankie thing. the daycare folks told us that she had started carrying her blanket around there, and now she does it all the time at home too. and it can't be just any blanket, it has to be fleece. she hasn't been choosy about which fleece blanket it is, only that it is a fleece blanket. when i went in this morning to get her, she was standing up in her crib with the blankie all bunched up, held with her left arm next to her head and her right thumb in her mouth.

this weekend, we may have had the momentous first sentence uttered: 'where daddy?'. there were no other witnesses there with me for confirmation, but it sure sounded like that's what she said.

brian is beside himself now that the word 'daddy' has, as he puts it, 'joined the hit parade'. she will now sometimes say to herself 'daddydaddydaddy' as much as she sometimes says 'mommymommymommy'. we've also been trying to work on saying the names of the teachers at daycare, but so far the closest we've come is what sounded like 'cady' for cathy. she's already got a few names of kids at daycare down, so she's on her way!