'bama!

The words have been coming at a furious rate – we’ve got: light (“iiigh”), doggy (“dah-ih!”), boxes (“bak-chess”), bird (“buh?”), bye-bye (used anytime she or anyone else is leaving a room, or looks like they might be), uh-oh (used just after -- and often just before -- she drops something onto the floor), and a whole lot of really good one-time repeats – she’s mimicking the sounds of words she likes and/or hears a lot, though she’s not applying them yet. The funniest one was this weekend, when she was eating Cheerios in her little Obama T-shirt, and our friends M&H’s seven-year-old and I were saying “Obama! Obama! Obama!” over and over, and she was laughing and saying “mamama! mamama! mamama!” Attempts to get her to say it later netted huge grins and a hilarious little “ ‘bama!”