Hannah Can Talk!

So it has been more than a little while since my last post. Since then, Hannah has turned 1, her hair has grown significantly, she has found out that her crib is a fine chew toy and not the least of which, has learned that talking is so much fun!

Quite a lot of the time she babbles on in her baby language which I do not understand. But every day she is learning more and more actual words and increasing in cuteness.

Of course she learned how to say Dadda first. That was such a sweet day! We were sitting on the sofa at my parents' house- I think it was Master's week 2013- Hannah was sitting in between us and she reached up to Jonathan and said Dadda. I nearly cried!

Her next words were Bubba- which is what she calls my brother and Meowy- which is what she calls the cats. Finally, on Mother's Day none the less, she finally said Mama! She has recently started going between Mama and Mommy which melts my heart.

Nana came swiftly after Mama but Papa was a little more difficult for her, so until she could say Papa, whenever she saw him, she made a sound that he taught her how to make.

She knows Deedee (sometimes Deedah) and says her name whenever we drive up to her house.

All shoes are boots or boos- probably because it was winter when she learned the word and I was wearing a lot of boots. And socks are dots.

Food is nom- nom.  She quickly learned how to say more as well. Bottle is ba- ba.

One of her favorite activities is a bath which she pronounces ba or bee- a. We cannot even say that word anymore because she will immediately fixate on it and want to have one. And so the spelling begins. Other words which we have to spell include outside and cheese. For outside, she says owww and cheese is more like teesh.

Sometimes ball sounds a lot like bath. And toys are doyz.

For yes, she is very certain with a yea, yea, yea! And she is quite good at no as well- but her no's still sound so cute! ( I realize that will pass)

She can say baby, but doesn't quite understand what it means, since everyone under the age of 10 is one.

She loves to rock- rock and will sing the "rock- rock" song with me. Her version sounds more like rah- rah.

For this, we have dish and that we have dat.

For a long time we would warn her that something was hot and she would blow on it, now she actually says hot and points to it.

Her new favorite tv show is Veggie Tales, but she really only cares about Larry whom she call La- Loo and holds her Larry doll while she is fixated on the tv. She will even pick up the tv remote, point it at the tv and say La- Loo is a very pleading voice.

We have begun to work on please and once we master it we will start on thank you. Most of the time she still needs the prompt, but she please sounds so cute- something like peesh.

It is so hard to believe just how much she has grown. She is so precious and each stage that we enter, she just seems more and more adorable- as if it is even possible to be more so!