Olivia is 13 months old

When Olivia was born, I heard "Enjoy it, it goes fast." It sounded pretty trite at the time, but I've found myself saying it to everyone I know who has had a baby in the past 6 months. I held a friend's 3 week old baby this week which reinforced how fast it has gone by.

I also figure I should probably start tracking development milestones and general observations about Olivia each month. This is probably totally boring even to the Knight and Luh families, but I figure I should probably document these milestones somewhere.

So, here's a list of things that I've noticed about Olivia lately.

Olivia loves playing with her toothbrush. Olivia will grab the toothbrush from us, dip it into the water glass, swish it up and down in the glass, then put it in her mouth and suck the water off. She'll repeat this until we take the brush away from her.

Olivia loves closing doors. If I open a door and she's nearby, she'll run over so that she can help close it. I think she might have learned this from the other kid at daycare, who also likes closing doors.

I believe that Olivia has transitioned from babbling nonsensically to actually saying 'Bye bye.' I don't remember exactly when this started, maybe when we got back from the Asia trip?

Olivia doesn't seem to have a favorite toy or blanket, which is a good thing given that Mom is a bit disorganized and can never find her car keys, let alone her child's favorite toy. I wonder if she will start bonding with a toy later in her childhood. Or I wonder if we are depriving her of security and comfort by not giving her consistency in her toy selection?

During the Asia trip, Olivia started feeding us crackers. Spencer would give her a cracker, she'd take a few bites, then hold the cracker up to Dad's mouth for him to take a bite.

Olivia is able to bend over at the waist to pick a toy off the floor.

Olivia walked out on her first bar tab. She had a few beers, then left Uncle Chris with the tab. She made some lame excuse about being exhausted from jet lag, a long week at day care, and tending to her parents.