Jabber Baby

Gracie's verbal skills have really kicked in to high gear this month (she's 13 mos now). Here are all the things she can say:

• What's that "uh dat" or "ussat" or "sat?!"
• Cheese "chiss"
• Apple or applesauce "Ah buh"
• Moose "moo"
• Ball "ba"
• Balloon "bas" or "boo" (she LOVES balloons and points them out in books, in stores, everywhere)
• Beans "beess" (she still love green beans! I can't figure out why!)
• All done "ah duh"
• Up "uh!" (to be carried)
• Baby "bee bee" or "bay bee"
• Teeth "tith" or "tiss"
  
• Fish "fiss"
• Keys "kiss"
• Macaw "caw" or "mcaw"
• G "jhee"
• D "dee"
• I/eye "aye"
• S "ss"
• Mama "ma"
• Daddy "da"
• Hi
• Bye (this one is rare)
• Bib "ba"
• Elbow "abby" or "ebby"
• Abby "abby" (one of her friends)
• Mole "mo" (she has always loved a mole I have near my collar bone and now points it out to me frequently)

She also does lots of animal sounds, and will point out animals by making their sounds when she sees them in books or real life:

• Monkey "ooh ooh ah ah" or "ooh ooh"
• Owl "hoo"
• Rabbit (she wiggles her nose)
• Dog "woof"
• Cat "maow" or "mah"
• Cow "mooh" or "muh" or "mah"
• Bird "tee tee tee"
• Chicken "buh buh!"
• Ghost "Boo" (we don't know where she learned this, but she does it to a ghost picture on our wall)

She's still learning baby sign as well, and she's getting close to walking. And she practices eating with a spoon.... Which is mostly grabbing stuff with her hands and smooshing it in her face and hair, but occasionally she picks up the spoon. I'd say its about 1 spoonful to every 4 or 5 handfuls. Not bad! :)