Bethany continues to get up to mischief with her latest climbing trick to climb into her pushchair from which she stands and waves and we have our hearts in our mouths before rescuing her from the predicament she was oblivious to. This is her new job - finding hazards around the home that we had not thought of and quickly trying them out whilst our back is turned. I thought I'd be clever and take the brake off the pushchair thinking this would prevent her from climbing into it as it rolled away from her as she grabbed it from the front. This lasted until she pushed it up against a wall and then tried to climb again and would have been successful if we had not intervened.
   It is still hard to tell whether she understands what we say and whether the words that she is trying to form are what we think they are. In the case of the former she does seem to respond well to questions e.g. this afternoon when I asked her to pick something off the floor and pass it to me she did but this may well have been down to me pointing at the object as well. As for speaking whilst most of it is still gabbling he odd word or phrase does pop out and they appear to be more connected - no more "Derek" and "Barbara" - and often in response to a question. A few months back my mam asked her "Where's Grandad?" to which she held up her hands and seemed to say "I don't know". This was probably coincidence but it is now more pronounced and it sounds like she is trying to repeat what we say. Yesterday she picked up a sweet and I asked her "What's that? A chocolate button" and it did sound like she repeated "Chocolate".
   It looks like it is about time that I seriously try to mind my language.