Kate talking

We were trying to count Kate's words the other night. It's probably somewhere between 10 and 20, depending on whether you count ones that she says but we can't tell what they are. Here are the definites.

"Mama" and "Daddy" - We hear these sometimes when she sees us and is excited, most often when she wants somebody to get her out of the crib in the morning or wants to be picked up. It's particularly nice when she's happy -- when I pick her up from school or something.

"Mine" - This we hear if we try to take something, anything, away from her.

"My" - Similar deal. "My baby!" in reference to her dolls, which are babies. She loves them lately. Walks around carrying them, bringing them to us, showing us them, then taking them back.

"Baby" - see above.

"Water" - this is more accurately, "wawa." When she's thirsty. Er, obviously.

"Butterfly" - this also is most often, "fuffer fly." It's pretty cute.

"Apple" - I have a hard time with this one, because I think she says it when she wants an apple, and also when she has an apple, and sometimes when she doesn't want an apple. So I'm really not sure if she's actually talking about apples all the time. She gives it a nice two-syllable pronunciation. "Ap-pull."

"Fish" - This one is pretty cute. Frequently she's talking about goldfish crackers. So she walks into the kitchen, and she says it with a slight "ee" sound, so it's "feesh....feesh...." (Then when she gets them...) "Feesh! Feesh!"

"Baba" - She calls grampa "Baba" sometimes. And sometimes she calls him "Grampa," I think. Usually hopefully. "Grampa?"

"Dack" - Jack, obviously.

There's a couple more ("Woof" is one of them, when she sees a picture of a dog) but that's all I can think of offhand.

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