I'm going to blame it on the end of summer lethargy, but I just haven't been able to post lately. I think about it every day and feel guilty, but always find something else to do. Not that there's nothing going on around here - we've had lots of company, the weather is hot again, we've been eating zucchini every single night because it's the one thing in my garden that is thriving on my neglect, we're going to a birthday party this weekend and will be celebrating David's birthday (with sliders and cupcakes) tomorrow. Adeline is growing and changing before our very eyes and we're just enjoying her so much. I knew I would like being a Mom, I knew I would love my baby and I knew I would be good at the job, but I never expected how very much I would LIKE my daughter. I just love hanging out with her. She makes me laugh every day, I'm amazed by her ability to take in new things and learn from them and she's just so happy and full of life. Of course there are hard days and hard times (right now I'm listening to a very over tired and over hot baby giving her Daddy a hard time as he tries to put her to bed...) Did I mention how smart our girl is? David and I were going through and counting up all the words she knows. I might be wrong, but I think it's a pretty impressive vocabulary for a 12 month old and she is adding new words all the time. Some of the words have interesting pronunciations, but she knows exactly what she is saying.
- up (her first and favourite word)
- belly button ("bell-butt") - her new favourite word and she likes to find her belly button and the belly button of everyone around her, even if you're out in public
- hat - her other favourite word and her big joke. She puts things on your head, says "hat" and then shakes her head no and laughs.
- cheese
- eye
- ears ("eese")
- piggies ("peezees" - her toes which she picked up from "This Little Piggie")
- hi and hiya
- bye-bye
- pat pat pat - to go along with hugging
- kitty - one day she was calling her best friend Zephyr by name ("Pepper") but then she stopped
- bear
- bird ("bir")
- ball
- bottle ("bawel")
- baby
- book (I can't even type how she says this, but it's definitely book)
- Mama (still no Daddy or Dada, David is the other Mama)
- Nana
- plane ("pane")
- flower ("lowah") - she is obsessed with pointing out flowers, both real and in pictures. I don't know how she can do it, but she knows that everything from a dandelion to a hydrangea to rose to a stylized line drawing to a tiny floral print is a flower, and she finds them every time.
- please ("peese" and she uses the sign too)
- thank you ("ah-oo")
- uh-oh
- hiding - we have a lift the flap book that says over and over again "Who's hiding" so she says this when we're reading it or if she wants me to find that one.
- and she know a few more animal noises - fish, bird, lamb, cow, tiger, lion and monkey
There are other words she's said once or a few times, but I'm only counting the ones she uses every day. Maybe when the weather cools down a bit my posting mojo will come back. This weekend is supposed to be a crazy hot one so I think we're going to be all about the makeshift pool in the back yard, smoothies and trying to stay cool.
