Nora's first word was 'bye-bye', directed at Zeke when he was running ahead of us down the sidewalk to the mailbox. This was at about 12.5 months, but it wasn't consistent. Then she started repeating words after we said them, and her mimicking vocabulary grew a bit. In the past week or so, she has started to really talk on her own. It's the cutest thing ever! Right now she says bye-bye, hi, shoes, cracker, and cheeeeeeeese (for the camera). And she is so very proud of herself too, which may be the cutest part.
Many foods are 'cracker' to Nora these days. Crackers, bread, noodles, cookies, Halloween candy.
A typical conversation goes like this:
Nora: Cracker?
Mom/Dad: No, that's a cookie. Cookie, Nora. Cookie.
Nora [super excited]: Cracker!
Although in the video below she is, in fact, holding a graham cracker.
She has been such a ham for the camera for a long time and now we have the 'cheeeeeese' to go with it. This is what she does whenever a camera (or phone) comes out and looks like it might be taking pictures. Even if it is completely directed away from her. :)
I love these learning moments. It's so much fun to watch these kids try and succeed. Also, as we've been so excited about Nora's milestones, it's also been fun to go back into our video files and re-watch Zeke's early walking and talking moments (he loves this one).
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