Samantha's picked up a couple of new skills in the last two or three days. She's started getting down off my lap when we're sitting on the couch together by laying down on my lap then scooting down backward until her feet are on the floor. She's definitely managing to climb up onto things and down off them again much better this week than she ever has before.

Today's big development was the wave. I was holding her on my shoulder in the living room as we were listening to Norah Jones together, and as usual she was watching herself in the mirror over the fireplace. I waved at her in the mirror, and for the very first time she waved back. I think this might even have been the day that she really understood that it was her in the mirror because she spent the next 10 minutes or so waving at me and waving at herself in the mirror. When I waved at her she waved back about three quarters of the time. Wow!