Bo-Coo

I'm not really sure what she says, the best we can come up with is "Bo-Coo".  Which means peanut butter. She will stand at the counter and beg for a spoon. (Or she will try to open the drawer herself and reach blindly for one!)  Once she has a spoon, she turns around to the other counter and begs for Bo Coo. 

She would like you to dip her spoon in the peanut butter.

She could eat the entire jar of PB, if we let her.  But we have limits. Although we often let her do it well past when we should stop.  Just because it gets her so excited, and PB isn't really that bad for you.  (Both Gene and I love it, so its hard to stop for us too!).

We are working on the real word.  It has many syllables, so its quite complex for her vocabulary.  But she's trying.  She uses so many more words now.  And babbles most all the time.

She's also learning to use words in context.  She knows eat means shes hungry and she will ask to sit in her high chair and "eat" when its dinner time. She also knows snack and will go digging in the cabinet looking for the perfect treasure to munch on.

She knows ride and knows that means you go somewhere in something other than the car.  She loves the Gator, and recently she's taken to rides in the wagon.  She will ask to go "ousside and ride".

She knows to kick her legs while swimming and says "kick kick kick".  She's become so much more comfortable on the water, sometimes its hard to get her out.  She knows she needs to move her arms (scoopers) and her legs (kickers) to get anywhere.

She knows sock and shoes go on your feet.  And she knows where her shoes are kept so she disappears into her room to reappear with a different pair of shoes for you to put on. She smiles are you and says "Sues on".

She knows her lovies.  She asks for Mimi and blanket. (Often the pronunciation is on the Ket part of blanket.)  She knows to ask her pappy, and lord help you if you don't have one.  "My pappy mommy.. my pappy!"  She uses the time between day care and home every night as her own downtime.  She often sits quietly in the back seat, sucking on pappy, just taking a moment to rest. 

She finally grasped that Poppie is Poppie and not Maemae.  And she has taken to Poppie much like he's taken to her.  I don't believe there is anything she could ever do that he would think no wrong about.  She is wrapped around him.  Its precious to see.  I enjoy watching there interaction. 

She thinks movement is call "see-saw".  She will sit in her rocker and sing see saw to herself.  The playground at daycare has a see saw that the kids (or maybe just Abby), love to play on.  I often she her run to it in the mornings and see- saw with her friend Brice.  (Brice is twice her size, so there isn't much seeing or sawing). 

She know Bye Bye and what bye bye means.  Although its often said once the person is gone and can't hear her.  When we leave in the morning, I often hear "Bye bye dada" as we pull away.  She makes sure to say Bye to her friends each day as we leave, even if they aren't still on the playground.

There is still a ways to go.  We still have a lot of grunts and groans, squeals and screams, but she is a sponge and is absorbing and learning so quick, that I know it won't be too long before she can express herself to her fullest.