Wowee, a zeppelin!

This baby, I tell you ... something new every day! Quick update before she wakes up from her midmorning nap:

Two-word phrases!
She's started stringing together more than one word -- it's been "all done" and that for awhile, but lately she's busted out "one more" (usually in re: books or kisses), "yellow washcloth", "pink star," and a few others.

Pretend play!
She's been walking around with a cup and a little spoon, pretending to feed herself and/or us whatever's in there. She makes "yum" sounds, and occasionally announces it's "all done."

Stairs
She's taking the back patio steps by herself now -- it's kind of horrifying, because they're rough concrete, but ... gotta do it sometime. At the last Sauce, she was ALL ABOUT climbing their uncarpeted wooden stairs all the way to the top (Daddy hovering inches away, of course). Heart attack city.

Other kids
She's long noticed babies (she'll point them out in books or in public and say, "baby!"), but now she's interested in other kids around her age. In the Borders with me and Mamalah, she was racing around the kids' section when she spied another girl, a 2-year-old who happened to be Asian; she stopped short, pointed at the girl, and said "aya!" (There is a half-Japanese girl at baby school, daughter of R.'s co-worker, whose name is Maya.) Then the two of them stood there pointing at each other and naming body parts till they both got bored and ran off. Pretty hilarious, I gotta say.

WORDS!
New words are hard to keep up with ... here's some recent vocab additions:
--arm
--avocado
--bite
--waffle
--chocolate
--coffee
--filter
--goldfish (as in, the cracker)
--garbage
--boot
--shoe
--sock
--outside
--drum
--orange
--freckle
--MINE
--whoa (said all Spicoli-like)
--wowee (said in Randy's tone when he says "WOW-EEE, a zeppelin!" in A Christmas Story)