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Click-Clack: 11 Month Updates

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Click-Clack, Click-Clack, Click-Clack... It's the sound you make as you click your tongue and play, click your tongue and walk, click your tongue and ponder the next great escape from behind the carefully placed furniture meant to keep you confined and safe. You love clicking your tongue.  You are so proud of the sound that emanates from where words will soon start to replace the click-clacking.  And one evening, long after we'd put you to bed and embarked on some home improvement projects, daddy took to building shelves for your room.  His hammering was steady and ryhthmic, Tap, tap, tap. And as he paused to survey his work, from the other side of the bedroom wall we could hear you call back to his tap, tap, tap, with your own, wide-awake, Clack, clack, clack. We smiled at one another. Like 2 dolphins, father and daughter, communicating from across a stretch of ocean you two communicated from the separation of walls in our home. And now, Lloyd or I might cl