Words, Words, Words

Nicole continues to be our little sponge, soaking up every word and often repeating anything you say. Not to imply that she "knows" all of these words that she repeats, but I think she does know several of them. Let's see...what does she know...here goes:

-She continues to count to 10!!!!
-She's starting to show signs of knowing the alphabet. We have one toy, Leap, (that Kaitlyn really likes better, so she pushes his tummy to sing the ABCs often) and when Leap starts singing, Nicole will get several letters here and there as well as getting the overall tune of the song. It's awesome!
-Shoe
-Night Night
-Light
-Water
-Minnie
-Daisy
-MaMa (love hearing that one...it wasn't like this was her first word or anything...I waited a long time for this to become a regularly used word)
-DaDa
-Bubble
-Baby
-Melmo (for Elmo)
-Outside
-Hello
-Bye Bye
-Uh Oh
-Oh My
-Oh Toodles
-Oh no
-No No No
-She says choo choo when she sees a train
-She says meow when she sees a picture of a cat
-And more....

Now, for Kaitlyn...drum roll please...we're SO excited that her vocabulary is picking up!!! When Nicole counts to 10, she absolutely joins in. I don't know that she could go from 1 to 10 all the way, but she definitely has 3, 8, 9 and 10. Then, she also does the same thing with Leap when she pushes his belly to sing the alphabet. She has several letters in there as well as the overall tune to the song too!!!! How fantastic. I think we just needed to be patient (which we were told plenty and never ignored, but when it's your kid, seems like we just wanted to do everything we could). She also has words. Here goes...

-Light
-Dog
-Daisy
-MaMa (same thing here...very exciting for me)
-DaDa
-Duckie (this is a new one - and a neat one becuase she's asking for her favorite toy which is cool) -She still does the same 6 animal noises
-She signs "more" quite often
-Yeah (always accompanied with applause)
-Baby
-Up
-Hi
-Bye Bye
-Cir Kin (or something like that - it comes out a bit like the word certain, but she's saying circle)
-And there are times that it seems like she's trying to say something if we say, "Kaitlyn, can you say ____."

And that's that! They're both doing great!!! I've waited for so long for them to talk. It's going to be that old saying, "Be careful what you wish for," right? :-) Oh well.