Our last Avery update was only five days ago, but she’s already doing new things. On Sat. morning, she took three steps – walking from Q to me – on her own. And later that day, she clapped for the first time in response to me, Q and Zoe clapping. (We were clapping about something Zoe did – not trying to teach Avery – so when Avery joined in, the three of us all looked at each other in excitement.)

And something else kind of neat… Unlike in past months, I didn’t look at Zoe’s 11-month update when I wrote Avery’s – but I was shocked afterwards to see how similar the two updates were. (“I actually can’t think of another four-week period in which we’ve seen such development,” I wrote about Zoe; “Out of all the monthly updates I’ve written, I feel like Avery has changed the most between this and the last one,” I said of Avery. Another example: “..If you don’t feed her fast enough, watch out,” I wrote in Zoe’s update. “She’ll grunt and groan and scold you – and then pull the spoon towards her.” And this time around I wrote: “Avery also likes to grunt a lot: she has taken to grunting when she wants more food…”)

I know they say every baby is different, but I guess Avery is more similar to her sister than I thought!