Talking

She speaks!  At long last, Samantha is beginning to talk.  She's been using sign language since she was 10 months old, and she's said a few words here and there, but about a week ago she began adding a few new words every day, and is using them consistently.  I'm keeping a list.  I find it interesting to observe the order in which she develops the new words.  I think there are two categories: things of great value to her, and thing that are easy to say.  Here are all of her words so far:

• Jinx (our cat, and her real first word at 10 months...started as Ji-Ji, but has developed into Jiiiiiiiink lately)


• Mama (and sometimes ma-mo, but never mommy...sigh)


• Dada/Daddy


• Doggie (this was the word that kicked off her real talking...the day she figured out how to say it, she probably said it a hundred times)


• Up


• No


• Cheese


• Bubble


• Bagel


• Yes


• Shadow (more like, da-dow, but she knows what a shadow is and tries to say it)


• Banana


• Hi


• Yellow (but nobody but her parents would ever know what she was saying...ehh-ow?)


• Keys


• Jeez (I had no idea I used that word so often - how embarrassing!)


• Green beans (gee-bee)


• Boo-Boo (as in ouch)


• Hot


• Bye Bye

 Sorry to bore you, but this is BIG!