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The Life & Times of Zack · 2012-2015 · 191 posts

12 months old!

ZBL had another busy month –

– he started learning to sign “more” the week of May 7-14

– he started throwing a ball to someone on 5/15

– if one of us would catch him eating “floor food” (cheerios or something else that had fallen off his high chair while he was eating), he would quickly crawl away from us as fast as he could :-)

– he started to clap on 5/14

– another cute mannerism is that if he’s sucking his 2 fingers (index and middle), he will often wave the thumb and 4th finger or pinky when someone says goodbye to him.

– he can say the word for “hello” in Mandarin when he picks up his toy phone

– Understands & will do hand motions to Twinkle Twinkle Little Star in English & Mandarin – when either our babysitter or one of us will start singing, he puts his hand sin the air above his head and starts waving them around.

← Earlier<p>Birthday Party Fun</p> <p>We invited some of our friends over to celebrate with Z (from the bottom up): Diego Rodrigues and Helen Yeni-Komshian (neighbors and long-time friends &ndash; bottom photo), EVR and Z playing with his toys, Aunt Liz and MWG, MR and SR (4th from the bottom), Erin and NGS (middle photo in row of 3 photos), Helen MR and SR, and cousin KAR holding ZBL @ the top (not pictured but also attending were Mike Schroepfer, Aunt Beth, Uncle Scott, and ACR).</p> <p>It was a lovely day and we also were celebrating the new trellis and patio that we had built during the month of May.  </p> <p><br/>Happy 1st birthday Z!</p> Later →June 23 -- first steps!