My active little charmer

First of all, I love all of your responses to the video below. It took me a long time to post it because I didn't want to embarrass my grandmom. She is the most amazing woman I know and she has been a second mother to me my whole life. But after sitting on it for awhile, I decided that I had to show it. It is too classic. Plus she only said out loud what everyone was already thinking. :-)

So, is every 11 1/2 month old as active as my daughter? We can't take her anywhere. She climbs out of her stroller, she climbs out of her high chair, she climbs out of the grocery cart... We need a straight jacket to leave the house. She is also climbing up stairs and climbing over baby gates. And when she's not climbing she is charming everyone around her. At restaurants she stares at other people until they notice her and then she smiles and smiles and blows kisses to them. Just yesterday we had the entire wait staff surrounding her high chair and she was "kissing" all of them. As soon as they left and the attention wasn't on her, she tried to climb out. I wonder where she gets that?

She also talks constantly. She can say bye-bye, duck, baby, balloon, Piper, Meg, Kirby, Dada, Mama, and so much more. Of course they are her versions of the words, but we understand her. I love it when she sees our dog Meg in the morning and just starts screaming, "MEH MEH MEH MEH!" And then she will see out other dog Kirby and laugh out loud and say, "KUH! KUH!" They love her and will run right to her and it kills me every time.

She also understands everything you tell her. If you say, "Where's your penguin?" she will go get the penguin. She does the same thing with books, her baby doll, her books, etc.. It really makes me nervous that she can understand so much of what I tell her. I probably need to be careful. Especially when I am yelling at some contestants on "American Idol." I hope her next words aren't, "Go home!"

I didn't mean for this to be a post gushing about Bennett. But I guess I have become one of those Moms who gushes. I can't help it. Besides, who can resist this smile? Not me, not certain waiters, and definitely not MEH and KUH!