Though we didn’t manage to say anything about it here at the time, Jace has been walking for a couple months now. He spent a couple days acting as though he was being followed around by a basketball referee (take just two steps and keep a pivot foot), and then went straight into walking as the primary mode of transportation, never really crawling again. This turned out to be a bit hazardous, since he hadn’t yet (still hasn’t, really) learned to look where he’s going, and the sport of being a toddler has resulted in a few minor injuries. Nevertheless, he’s more or less survived thus far.

His next big trick is talking and singing.

So far his vocabulary consists of the words “Uh-oh” and “Hi” (I think actually that’s probably the Japanese “Hai!”, used to indicate agreement). He occasionally comes out with the word “No”, and when we left him with the Sim clan for the weekend, Caroline tells us that he finished a bottle, lay back, stretched, and said quite clearly, “Ahhh… I like that.” Jace also chatters away, combining random collections of D’s, G’s, and Zh’s in unbroken sentences, the length of which easily rival those of my world history professor in college.

And then there’s the singing. Despite the inability to say any of the words, he does easily recognizable renditions of the happy birthday song and the alphabet song. I’m about to get started working on teaching him Stairway to Heaven, just so he can expand his repertoire a bit.

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