Lydia is 16 months old! Here are some most recent pics with her new Asian baby doll. When she first arrived home (at 14 months), she had no idea what a dolly was, nor how to play with it. Since her play skills consisted of mainly banging and mouthing toys, she didn't attend to the doll at all---just dropped it and moved on.
Today, I got out the doll again with a play bottle; she picked her up right away, looked intently at the face, touched the hands and hair, and hugged it. When I gave her the bottle, she put it right up to the baby's mouth and said "mmm". Great play skill progress for eight weeks; with no intervention or teaching, but just natural parent/baby interactions! 
