Guten tag!

 Okay, she probably hasn't intentionally said THAT yet, but Sarah is all kinds of babbling lately. Lots of "mamama, dadada, bababa" with the occasional "hi" or "a-gen-da" thrown in there. With all these new words to practice, who has time to sleep? She fills my heart.

Hats or tails?

Little Miss Teresa is changing fast! One of her new favorite pasttimes is dressing up. She's long loved to wear other's shoes, but now she's added more to her ensembles. After any extended period of quiet I usually find her somewhere "in costume". One of her new favorite words to say is "hat". She was determined to wear these bloomers as one. Then she'd pull them over her face & play peek-a-boo through the leg hole. :)

My kind of cowgirl

Some other words recently added to her daily stories: milk, water, eese (cheese), egg, dip, eckup (ketchup), boot, shooo (shoes), tweet, baud (bird), owie (sorry), eccome (You're welcome), & so many more! The verbal explosion continues!

Her face expresses how I feel about these pigtails... glad she has enough hair to make them but not so sure about them yet. ;) At her 18 month check-up she was once again off the charts for height & about 30% for weight. She's doing great!

Explosion

Teresa has had rather the verbal explosion in the last two weeks. She went from a vocabulary of about 5 words (mama, dada, bubba, baby, puppy, ball) to repeating almost anything we say just shy of 18 months old! She is consistently saying hi, bye-bye, love you, thank you, lap (asking to sit on it), side (to play outside), go, uck (sock), all done, down, ook (book), bear, more, jew (juice), cuppie (cup), open, up, on... all kinds of things on her own & many more with example. It's been fun to finally feel like she's really able to communicate with us. Of course, there are still plenty of kinks to work out, like answering "no" to every yes/no question though when accompanied by the sign for "yes" it means affirmative. What a fun time to see which words are important enough for her to learn them & get a little sneak peak into her developing personality.

Bribery pays

Well, he's done it.

Darren promised Teresa five bucks if she'd say "Dada" first... & she did last night! (Don't worry, Edith, I'll make sure he pays up. ; P ) I got some adorable video of it, but I can't upload from that recorder to my blog. So, instead here she is laughing at Daddy's shenanigans afterwards. Adorable.