Words

I always had this idea that Sara would be an early talker and talk a lot (you wonder why I thought that?!). But she's proven to be on her own time table, which is completely fine by us. She's technically on track according to all of the charts but some of her little friends (they're all a few months older than her too) are talking machines. It's crazy how each child has their own way of doing things and is on their own schedule. I would have to say that Sara is "advanced" as far as physical feats go. She started jumping off the side of the pool to Ryan and goes all the way under until Ryan picks her up. Crazy girl. Anyways, sorry off track a little.

I hadn't really been keeping track of her words because she was only using a few. I decided to write a few down just for curiousity and she has a lot more than I realized. Sorry for the bore but since I'm horrible at keeping a baby book I'm going to record them here. Mama, Dada, (sometimes it's just DAAAA!), Whoa, Uh oh, (I know those two aren't really words but they count to me :-), Up, down, out, hat (this is her favorite, besides "up", I'll post a picture of the hat that she loves to wear), fish, duck, milk (she still does the sign for those too), Tyla, cracker, hi, bye bye, movie (it's more like an exagerated moooo with her lips puckered. She loves doing the fish face and making the noise too), help, beach (kind of sounds like bitch, better work on the pronunciation of that one) bread, hop (like a easter bunny), top, six, eight (those are her favorite when we count), shoes. So I guess she's saying a lot more than I realized. I think it's all the whining and pointing that goes on that makes me think she doesn't say anything. So needless to say, she's saying a lot more than I realized :-)

I'm floored every day by something that she comprehends that I say or something I tell her to do. I think we have to start being careful now or else we may end up some "proud parenting" moments. She thought it was hysterical tonight when Ryan was throwing gold fish crackers into the air and catching them in his mouth. Guess who likes to throw her crackers now? Doh.

Here's her new favorite hat. The backpack is from my sister and she likes to carry her baby around in it.

Gotta love the belly flash to the chimpanzee!

Here they are sizing each other up. I think he was afraid she was going to come steal the Cherrios he was eating.


Climbing in the trees with Daddy

I can do it myself!

She decided to make her own concoction with a salsa container at dinner the other night.