Learning and growing

Well, the chickadee is 16 months old already! The time has flown by.

We've been busy bees with a trip to San Diego at the beginning of March for a wedding (and quality time with Grandma and the ocean) and then some fun playing in Capitol City for my birthday.

We're headed to Chicago this weekend so that I can present at the national conference for people who study what I study. PEter and the chickadee are coming as well, not to the conference to Chicago, so we're working on planning some fun as well as work. If you have any child-friendly suggestions, let me know!

For those in the know, I've added a bunch of pictures to the shutterfly share site. If you'd like access and you don't already have it, send me an email and I'll invite you. We've password protected it so that we can share all sorts of family photos.

new words

More pictures and stories from our trip to the coast next week (I'll have time over spring break) but just a quick note to document Froglette's latest words.

[æp˺] for apple

She can also moo, baa and woof for the respective animals.

Her receptive vocabulary is bigger and it's clear she knows and can response appropriately to many different words. She knows boots, sit down, cracker, milk, coat, shoes, gentle (well, she might know gentle, she's not always actually gentle!), kiss, hug, mouth, nose, toes, tongue, head, bite (she bites her toes sometimes during diaper changes) and nurse (she laughs with a maniacal little laugh when I say "nurse?" in response to her nurse sign. Like, "yes, dummy, that's what I just said!")

Ah words, so much fun!