In this great TV show called Bones, there is one episode where Dr. Temperance Brennan (aka Bones) is playing with a baby. If Mommy’s memory serves her correctly, Bones had been told to talk to babies with real words and to teach them the names of things. So, she is talking to the baby in a very excited voice about “phalanges! phalanges!” while her coworkers look on in confusion. It is not that they don’t know that phalanges are fingers and toes–they are just so surprised that she would play with a baby using such technical terminology. I guess that means Mommy can talk to you about sucrose, sodium chloride and sodium bicarbonate when we bake together…

Anyway, that whole little tangent is because over the last week, you have seemed to discover that you have phalanges. You open and close your hands; you start to grasp things; your fingers seem to always find your mouth. We can’t wait to see what happens when you realize you have feet!