Almost 16 months

Daisy now says "Count" and "One, two, three" (well, all right, "fee") and she has some rudimentary sentences. She will sometimes say, when she rolls a ball, "It comes" (a version of "Here it comes") and she has said "Up and nurse" while standing next to the bed and she has said "I go." I think I mentioned before that she says, "One, two, buck" to prompt the nursery rhyme "One, two, buckle my shoe." I feel like she's on the verge of all kinds of exciting things verbally. She's certainly got more two-syllable words than before("puppy," "ocean," "baby,"`"slipper," "painting," "picture,"
"coffee," just off the top of my head--she wouldn't be our daughter if one of her first multi-syllable words wasn't "coffee") and she is pronouncing things more clearly.

As far as the motor skills, she is more or less where she was a week or two ago: walking five steps or so to get to a familiar person and sort of falling into the person at the tail end. She does walk holding just one hand now, though. I can understand now a bit more of why the physical therapist says walking is harder for her: because she is so flexible and loose-jointed, it actually takes _more_ strength for her to execute some of the moves than it requires for other babies. But instead of being stronger than they are, she is actually probably a little weaker (she has somewhat low muscle tone, though the therapist explained that tone is not the same as strength). She got called "squishy girl!" again, but I'm taking it as a term of endearment!