Before Avery takes off and walks on her own, I wanted to capture some video of how she gets around. The first one shows her taking some steps with her dad (and saying her signature “hi-yah” at the 7-second mark) and the second shows how fast she can zip around – and follow her sister! – these days.
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Zoe, as mentioned before, recently started taking kung-fu – and we’ve taken Avery to each of her classes. After hearing plenty of hi-yahs at class, Avery took a fondness to the word and now says it all the time. It’s cute, yes, but less so when she blurts it out at inopportune times – like at the hotel, at 4:30 the other morning. (She couldn’t sleep, and when we put her in bed with us she kept crawling up to me and Q, saying it loudly.)
Here’s a parenting tip: Don’t expose your almost-one-year-old to martial arts if you don’t want hi-yah to be one of her first words!