More Words...

Tonight, Avery pointed to a picture of a toy telephone, and said "Phone- Beep Beep Beep." Randy heard it too. Funny little girl. =o) She will be 14 months on the 26th.

Today also started her transition to the next room at Daycare. She's loving it. According to her daily sheet she painted with a paint brush, and sat in the book area and sang songs and listened to stories. Aww.

Although Randy did forward facing on Friday, today (3/23) was also my first day with Avery forward facing in the car seat! Friday was her first day going to Nana & Papa's with Daddy without Mommy (I had to work.) Lots of firsts this week!

Avery's Words just shy of 14 months

Avery says all kinds of things.. I'm not even sure I know all the things she says, and she doesn't always repeat them a lot.. you just hear her saying them in passing..

a-boo (for peek-a-boo)
apple
arf (like a dog)
Bye bye
bee
baby
bottle
balloon
bubble
ball
bak bak bak (like a chicken)
book
cat
dog
dada
daddy
feet
(f)ish (more like "Ish")
granny
juice (duice)
kitty
meow
mama (rarely calls me this, but says it)
moo
owl
p(l)ease (kind of leaves the L out)
pig
shoe
ut-oh
who (like an owl)
wow
woo(f) woo(f) (like a dog)
yes (more like yees)
yum

She also does signs for milk, more, all done, and shakes her head no.

First Words..

Okay.. so when do you count a word as a first word? Do you count it if they don't repeat it more than once?

For the last week or two Avery has been saying "Hi" while waving at daycare. I haven't heard it although I was there once when she did it. We've been trying over and over to get her to do it at home with no results. Her favorite thing to say is "Ah" and she likes to "Ah" back and forth with everyone (including several of the other babies at her daycare.. apparantly she's a bit of a trend setter.. )

We've been trying to get her to say Mommy, Daddy, Mama, Dada.. etc. for awhile now..

Tonight she was rolling around, looked at me and said "Mama." She didn't repeat it, but both Randy & I heard it...

Then, a co-worker of mine gave me a 3 foot tall giraffe for Avery. It was a much belated shower gift, and I had brought it in and Avery was examining it, patting it, etc. My DH & I were discussing names.. and I looked at Avery and asked what she wanted to name it and she said "Daddy." She wouldn't repeat that one either. (Her timing was just perfect though! Very funny!)

I don't know whether to count any of these as first words as they could have all been coincidences.. .. but how funny! Two one time words in one night. I told her if she wanted to go ahead and crawl tonight she could be 3 for 3, but she didn't go for it. Funny girl!