Happy 15 month birthday, Emily.
Astute readers will have surely noticed that this celebratory blog entry is already 10 days late. But from the deluge of complaints that never flooded my email or the comments section of this blog, I’m just gonna press on and assume nobody noticed.
Emily is very fortunate to have spent most of her fifteenth month with family – and not just boring old mom and dad! I feel like a big fat jerk for not blogging about it sooner because so many wonderful memories were created during my dad’s 10-day visit and then during my sister Rebecca’s subsequent week-long adventure that a passing mention in a birthday blog entry will never do it justice. I’ll follow up soon with more details.
Hangin’ around
I think I’ll break from tradition and, instead of listing all of Emily’s major achievements from this past month in easy-to-read bullet list format, I’ll focus on one topic and go into annoying detail via the handy use of tables. Don’t worry, I know what you’re thinking… I’ll add bullets, too. So without further ado, here is Emily’s communication breakdown:
Words in Emily’s vocabulary
- ball – anything that’s round is a ball
- B-B-B – Big Brown Bear becomes bedtime buddy
- bye-bye – you’ll get one of these after a kiss or if you put on your coat
- daddy – still with the cute pause between syllables
- dog – this animal gets named, the others are all known by the sounds they make
- eye – she used to say “ear” but we lost that one
- key – newest on this list, just appeared yesterday as I was opening the front door
- kick – will say it every time she does it – we have a future soccer champ
- mama – sounds a bit like “baba”
- more – the absolute most often heard word on the list
- one – when building towers, we always count the first block placed
- uh-oh – used to indicate dismay or concern (Merriam-Webster)
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Things that Emily can point out in a line up
- alligator – there’s a picture of one above her crib
- bed – synonymous with “are you tired?”
- car – she’ll push it around the room if you say “vroom!”
- Cookie Monster – he’s the blue one
- dummy – this is her pacifier, not her daddy
- Elmo – he’s the red one
- feet – I have to ask for these when putting on her footy pajamas
- fish – probably the first word to appear on this list thanks to the mobile in her bedroom
- food – being able to ask “do you want… ?” is sooo useful!
- milk – see above
- shoes – Emily loves to try on everyone’s shoes
- socks – she’ll pull them off when you’re not looking
- train – hers has a button on the locomotive that play “If I could talk to the animals”
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Instructions Emily understands
- close the door – gotta keep the heat in one room
- come here – whether she complies is another question
- dance – a mix between “jump” and “sit down”
- jump – Rebecca insists that Emily jumps like a monkey
- kiss – my favorite
- legs in the air – only to be used when lying on her back
- sit down – first came in handy on the slide
- spin – and will continue until she gets dizzy and falls over
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Animals whose noise Emily can imitate
- cat – Emily snuck up behind me while I was looking at I Can Has Cheezburger? and starting meowing – that was awesome
- duck – missing the “qu-” but always comes in twos
- elephant – tons of spit – classic
- horse – usually “nay” but sometimes “nee”
- sheep – this one always makes her happy
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Cereal killer
That’s my girl. Just because we did not complain, does not mean we did not notice. Another great milestone, 15 months. wow. Way to go Emily. Love you, Nana
you forgot to mention that Emily can now build her own furniture.