All smiles and lots of words....

Eating a "crackr" at the lake.

Squeezing into a "box" after a "baa"

"peek-a-boo"

If you know our girl, you know this is a major accomplishment as Anna refuses to swing. She still will not swing in a baby swing but she will slide down any slide. We went to the park 4 times this weekend and by the end of the weekend she was waking up from her nap saying, "slide."

Everyday is an adventure with our sweet girl and each day brings more and more words that our little one says. Just tonight we were eating chicken pot pie. As we served up dinner we shared with her we were eating pot pie. When her plate was cleaned she said ,"peese pot pie."

Here are some of the words we hear her say often...

"more"
"seye"-eyes She often puts the "s" at the front of the word but occasionally she will say, "eyes."

"uh-o"
"mou"-mouth
"buh"-book
"peese"-please
"baa"-bath
"showr"-shower Yes, our little one knows the difference between a bath (her bathroom has a tub) and the shower in our bathroom. Often Anna begs to take a "showr" but she still loves bath time with her daddy.
"cado"-avocado
"sauce"-applesauce
"grapes"
"fish, "gol-gols", "OOs" For when she wants a snack.
"crackr" Anna's new favorite treat, thanks to her grandmommy...a Graham Cracker
"uhh"-up
"down"
"deuce" Anna will stick out our hand, fist balled up and give us a deuce pound all while saying "deuce."
"phone" These days almost anything can be used as a phone if she can't find her cell phone to put up to her ear.
"biii"-bib For so long we battled keeping a bib on our sweet girl. Now she often points and ask for it, if is not on when she starts to eat.
"shoe"
"socks"
"beep-beep"
"tweet-tweet" The sound birdies make
"kiyy ka"-kitty cat
"hat"
"door"
"blow" This is a new trick. Anna constantly wants to blow her nose. Anytime she sees a tissue she asks to "blow" and will stand there and wipe her nose. Her favorite thing is to watch herself in the mirror "blow" her nose.
"nose"
"no"
"moma"
"dada"
"granday"-grandaddy
"gray-gray" For her friend Grayson
"maie " For her friend Madison. She doesn't pronounce the "d's."
"mac" For her friend Mac.
"got it"
"get it"
"car"
"truc"-truck
"sit"
"mail"
"step"
"girl"
"man"
"buba" Our neighbors dog at the lake. Anytime we hear a dog bark she will say, "buba"

"cli"-cute clips for cute girls by millie (all of Anna's clippies)
"cup"
"waer" -water
"ball"
"baby"
"boat"
"wee"
"slide" The slide at the park.
"side" outside
"night-night"
"done"
"down"
"gone"
"box"
"blocks"
"pane"-plane
"shhhh" with her finger on her mouth.
"squirl"-squirrel
and of course, "hey," "hi" and "bye"

Whew. As you can tell Anna is really able to communicate with us. It is rare that we don't understand what she wants or is trying to convey to us. What amazes me just as much as her extensive vocabulary is her ability to grasp the meaning of a word. For example, Anna will see our neighbor watering his yard and she yells out, "waer." She can then be at the lake and see the body of water before her and say, "waer." Yet she also knows that the only other thing she drinks other than milk is water and will ask for "waer" at mealtime. It amazes me that she can differentiate between the three yet know they are all the same.
Another example is with a car. Anna has known for a long time that the big object that passes by our house is a "car." But just recently she was flipping through a magazine and said, "car" as she pointed to a car. Even just this morning as Anna was waking a school bus was passing by our house. Through the monitor we could hear her repeating "truc, truc" but then she stopped and said "pane, pane." She knew both the plane and truck made a loud noise. It was almost as if she was trying to figure out which one it was. Isn't the mind an amazing thing?! Whew, that was a long overdue update on our almost one and a half year old.