Coline's walk and talk

Coline now walks all by herself. It almost went unnoticed because she has been walking all over the place for months, holding our hands, the walls or furniture, but what a wonderful feeling it seems to be for her to be able to get there quick full of stuff in both hands.

She is also talking a bit more, and although her words are generally te-te, papa, mama, she uses another one a lot: "Leila". Leila of course means Leila, but it also means dummy and chocolate, which are strictly Leila's territory even though Leila does her best to take Coline down that path (the only obstacle to Coline's reaching the chocolate territory being me), and Leila also means "I'm sore!" It was a bit of a shock for me to come to that conclusion. Coline had used the word many times when in pain but I could not allow myself to believe it until Cristiano and I found Coline pointing at Leila and saying through her tears in a heartbreaking complaint "Lei-laaaaaaa". We then realized that "Leila" is what she says when her fingers get caught, when she bangs her head or gets scratched by the cat. Well, she also said Leila with a sad face when we dropped Leila at school last Wednesday, for they like it when the other one is around.