Lately it’s been surprising to me how quickly Alethea is changing.  She gets around so easily, I feel like I can’t let her out of might sight for a second, especially now that she has started to climb stairs.  Oh, and as an added bonus, if I do catch her going towards something she’s not supposed to have and say in my best mommy voice, “Alethea, don’t touch that,” she just speeds up to try and beat me to the things she’s not allowed to have!  She must think I’m such a killjoy.

A more pleasant development is Alethea’s expanding vocabulary.  She now says three colors: green (clearly), yellow (“eh-woh”) and blue (“boo”), although I’m still pretty sure she has no concept of their meanings.  She also says, “All Done” (sounds like “ah-dah”), which she generally uses when she’s done eating and also throughout her diaper changes, like she’s trying to convince me to let her run around the house without a diaper.  Fat chance.

She continues to say “hi” and “Dada” both in correct contexts and incorrect ones, so jury is still out on whether she knows they are real words, although the other day, Peter walked into the room, she looked right at him and said, “Hi, Dada,” so maybe…

But her favorite word by far is “Uh-oh!”  She uses it when she drops things, when she wants attention (she seems to know that I’ll always look up when she says it) and just generally throughout the day whenever she thinks it fits.  It’s kind of funny.

I guess that means her word count at 41 weeks is 5-7 words.

Today I’m trying to get her to say, “Happy Birthday, Grandpa John!” So far, no luck.