Bernadette This Week

She's officially a toddler. She wants everything--everything--one for each hand, please. She says "Hi" and "Uh-oh" a lot, and when she wants to say "No", she shakes her head firmly and grunts, "Nnn."

She can climb all by herself to the top of the playscape at the playground by our building, and she wriggles off my lap when I take her down the big twisty slide. Yesterday, with an enormous grin on her face, she walked fearlessly to the top of the little baby slide. Not pausing to sit down, she merely stepped off the edge of the world. Of course, she slipped, bumped her head on the slide, and make the trip down flat on her back. When she got to the bottom, the enormous grin was still in place.