Chatty Cathy

Emily has been very vocal lately. She is just babble city and I love to hear her little voice try to articulate words. She has started to mimic words we say to her, and on several occasions she uses the word to correctly associate it with an object. It started with "dog" (pronounced duh) and now she will say "doggie." She is really into add "ie" or "y" to words now. More recently she really started associating "dada" or "daddy" to Zig. Before she just babbled dada, but now if you say "Where's Daddy?" She will look around for him. It just melts my heart when she says it. I love it. Still no mama. It will come with time. Other words she says are "Hi", "Yeah", and "baby." It is really amazing to see how much she has learned in the last few weeks. And how good she has gotten at walking around. Here are two videos showing off these skills. It was right before bed time, so she is a little fussy. I love when Zig sings "E I E I O" to her and she almost tries to mimic it back. She is a sponge these days. Oh and our other favorite thing to do these days is try to get her to fake laugh. If she starts to get fussy, we will laugh to her (not at her ;) ) and she will start laughing back. It's a total fake laugh, not the belly laughs that she gives us when she really laughs, but she thinks it is so funny. I will try and get that on video too. ::Rambling over::