Walking and Talking!

I thought it would be nice to give you an update about The Soph. She is blossoming into an absolutely beautiful child, walking and talking! If I do say so myself. And I do. She is quick, too! Besides running around, she also enjoys playing with us (hide-and-seek, blocks, drawing on her MagnaDoodle, coloring), reading books (over and over and over!), ANYTHING Mommy and Daddy are doing, pretty much getting into EVERYTHING, and dancing to music! Anytime she hears anything musical, she moves her little butt! She likes it so much that we even have random dance parties during the day. She's pretty good at staying in time with the music. I don't know where she gets that!

As you saw a few videos down, Sophie likes to talk. A lot. About everything. In fact, I thought it would be a nice time to chronicle what she says and how she says them at 18 months. This will be interesting looking back, I think, in a few years. Or at high school graduation. Same diff.

There are a few words that she says quite clearly and there are times that Jim and I both look at each other and say "HUH?!?"). She babbles constantly, incoherently but confidently! She says things and acts like we should have understood everything she said. It's quite cute. The words she says are really mundane things to most adults, but to us it's pretty impressive. We are proud that she knows so much.

WHAT HOW
flower.................flowah
wow....................wwwwowww
ball
baby
this/that.............diss/daT (she enunciates the T)
mama/mommy
dada/daddy
grandpa..............gampah
thank you...........taintyu
water..................watah
milk....................milhhh
banana...............nana
juice
blueberries........bubeebees
strawberries......stahbeebees
apple..................ahhhpoh
tickletickle.........tittletittle
duck...................duh
doggie................dawdie
yuck...................yuhhh
wooo, stinky.....wooo teentee
bye-bye
hi/hello
night-night......nahnah (this gets confused with banana. A lot.)
purple..............puhpoh
blue.................behhhh
airplane...........beebee
yay (clapping)..eeeeee
tree
turtle
fish
bunny.............nunnah
elbow
knee...............Neeeeeeee
Henry ............Ennnnnnreeee (Our friend's little boy. She calls all baby boys this.)
Up Up Up
shoes
bath

When she sees the Cirque tent, she points and says "Dada" so she knows that's where he works.

She likes to sing. When I sing a scale, she imitates me. Also she sings to herself when playing or in her crib.

Can identify body parts when asked. Where's your eye? Where's Daddy's eye? etc. This is one of her favorite activities also. I was reading an alphabet book, the letter I was up. She pointed at her eye. She is very bright!

Can make animal noises. When she sees birds, she tweets. When she sees monkeys, she oooh ooh aah aahs. (Once at Trader Joe's grocery store, she saw a monkey by the bananas and made the noises. Even passers-by commented on how bright she is!) When we ask what a walrus says, she can even bellow. :]

She understands simple directions. Push the button, pick something up, put something in a specific place, let's go brush your teeth, etc.

She can identify many different household objects also, like clothing and furniture. The other day we were putting on her shoes to go out and she had her sippy cup in her hand. We have two tables in our apartment, a coffee table and a dining table. Sitting by the coffee table, Jim asked her to put the cup on the table. She got up and put it on the dining table. :]

As you can see, I'm a proud mama! Here are a few recent pictures that I snapped here in Seattle of Sophie being cute/doing her favorite things.




























Playing with Dada




























Laying on the floor, reading














MagnaDoodle


















She also insists on putting her socks on HERSELF. She's very persistent. (Make sure the volume is down, there's a mommy voice in there.)