Barnyard Banter

Lily has been working on her animal impersonations lately. As you can see in the video, she does "baa" for sheep, "neigh" for horse, "woof woof" for dog, and my personal favorite, "meow" for cat. When she's in the mood, she will also say "moo" for cow. She quite literally learns a new word or two every day. Her current word list includes: dada, mama, baby, juice, up, no, dog, ball, sheep, shoes, apple (soo cute), (ba)nana, frog, duck, hi, bye-bye, book, eyes, nose, thank you, belly button (still very hard to understand this one), and kitty cat (also hard to understand). She has been reported to say "bear"and "puppet" by her teachers (and she says their names, Mona and Linda), and Carl and Ingrid heard her say "blueberries" once, but I have not personally heard these words yet.

Lily's nonverbal communication has been rapidly increasing as well. When she's hungry, she will go to her high chair. If she wants something in particular, she will go to the refrigerator, and when I open the door, she will point to what she wants. She also shakes her head when she does not want something. These are all welcome developments and makes communicating with her infinitely easier.

In other news, Lily had her 15-month doctor's appointment today. Her stats are: 24 lbs. 11 oz. (75th percentile) and 31 inches (50th percentile). So, she is definitely progressing nicely. She had three shots today and was a bit of a bear tonight, but that is certainly to be expected (I'm sure I would be too).

We had a very nice visit with Aunt Ingrid this weekend, and everyone (including Terra) misses her already. I have decided that the ratio of children to adults should be 1:3; this would really make things so much easier!