Vocabulary

It seems that anymore now Avery's vocabulary is just growing day by day. I'll say words to her and she doesn't hesitate to copy them. It makes me very excited to see her learning new things everyday. Since she started walking she has become Miss Independent and Miss Busy! She wants to get into everything, walk everywhere, go up and down the stairs, use her own utensils, etc. The fact that she is picking up on these skills just amazes me, but it's also very tiring. We've been lucky at being able to contain her in her play area. This is the first time we've put up baby gates! I was surprised that we waited so long too, and I think I can count on one hand how many times we've had it up.

I digress. I was talking about her vocabulary. One Saturday she woke up and pointed to her bow board, I said "Bow", she said the same. That started the day of B's. Balloon-"boon", Bow-"oohhh", Bird-"ird", banana-"nana". Don't know what her obsession about B's was that day. She's also saying "night night", light-"lieee", milk-"mewk", all done-"ah du", more-"mooohh", the standard momma, dadda, hot-"haa haa" then proceed to blow, airplane-she points up to the sky.

She has been surprising me about following commands. I started one night after I cleaned her up from dinner. I asked her to put her highchair back, and she did! She rolled it back to its spot and then came back. She can go up and down stairs fine w/ commands. Lately she has been taking the "big helper" role. Today she carried her bag of clean diapers, brought them all the way downstairs, put them in a cupboard, took them out when I asked her to, and brought them to the car. When we got to daycare she also carried them to her class. Often I ask if she can put something back, close the door, get a diaper, etc. and she has been pretty good about responding correctly.

Now that her little world is expanding, I try to make everything educational. Whenever we're doing whatever, I try to identify different objects, colors, shapes, etc. I'm also really really trying not to use the babytalk! It's hard! All in all, my little girl is growing up. I don't think she's a baby anymore, she's a kid!