Growing Vocabulary

Yesterday I spent a long time with Fiona repeating the words "door" and "wall" as she slapped her hand against each one. She already knew how to say "door" ("doe"), but wall was a tricky one, and it was fascinating watching her watch me repeat the word while she tried to figure out how to make the sound. Eventually she hit upon something that sounds like "all" and another word was added to her repertoire.

Some other recent additions:

• If you hand Fiona an apple, she'll say "apple." If you hand Fiona a pear, peach or banana, she'll say "apple."
  
  
• When Fiona wants to be picked up or helped up onto the couch she can now ask "up?" Or, more accurately, "up up up up up up up?"
  
  And on the topic of up: yesterday Fiona discovered that by removing the pack of diaper wipes from her changing table (yes, she can reach that high now) and placing the wipes in front of a chair, she can then stand on the box to boost herself up so that she's on the chair.
  
  
• I'm not sure if I've written about this before, but Fiona asks for juice ("Joo?"), responds when asked if she wants milk ("mal?") and has (finally!) gotten very clear about pointing out Mommy ("mama!") and Daddy ("dadadada!")