An exhaustive list of my vocabulary, and some footage of me walking!

Hi everyone!

Now that I'm a year old, I'm really off to the races.  Pretty soon I'm going to be hosting impromptu walks and speeches with my newly acquired skills.

Here are some pics from the last few weeks:

Dinner at Raymond's

In my vroom vroom!

Doing art with Paula 

At the park with dada (clearly we are a little ahead of park season)

Also, here's me on the move:

I also have a pretty extensive vocabulary (noting this all "for the record"):

• mama, dada, mimi (often said while holding the phone- guess she knows who mama spends the most time talking to)
• car, vroom vroom: I like to keep an eye on things in this new suburban neighborhood of mine. lots of cars!  AND now I have one of my own (thanks, grandma)!
• Hat (pronounced hot): I love my hot, and really any hot!  I love when other people try on my hat, and when other people have hats so that I can take them off.  Sometimes I call my bows hats, because, after all, they are on my head, just like my hots!
• baba!  This is a work with many different meanings.  First, baba is the obvious bottle.  Love babas, especially when I see other babies with them.  I also call ducks babas, and tend to shout it confidently.  BABA!!
• Baby: I love pointing out other babies!  In my world, babies are everywhere.  They're on my yogurt container, they're in books, and they are on the streets of Ridgewood.  They're even kids who are 10 years old- anyone who's not an adult is a baby.  I even have a baby of my very own that I like to keep an eye on. She wears a hat!
• ney ney: horsie!  This is a new one
• hi: I like to say hi to everyone
• agua and yum yum: you need to be able to tell people when you'e hungry and thirsty.  I sometimes like to walk over to the refrigerator and shout YUM YUM so people really get the message
• up/down: i'm working on these- my delivery isn't perfect yet, but I know that up means go up the stairs and pick me up and down means let go of me i've got things I've got to get to on the ground
• bye bye: this is hot off the press.  I tried it out tonight twice, but will need to practice a lot more
• ojo: spanish for eye (forgive the spelling, my mother took French). I used to poke people and my baby doll in the eye, but I am less interested in eyeballs than I used to be (cars are more interesting)!

Well, that's it (for the record)!  Mom should be putting this stuff in the baby book, but she is making me do all the work.

Lots of love,

Gillian