Arden welcomed her top two front teeth this weekend. Their arrival was slow and quite painful and caused Mama and Daddy to lose a lot of sleep, but we’re all glad that they’re finally in.

Along with her new teeth, Arden’s developed quite a vocabulary lately. We’ll try and post some video clips of her talking if we manage to catch it on tape. (Technically our video camera records to a hard drive, but you knew what we meant.)

Words:

• Dog – pronounced “gahk”
• Mama & Dada – these sometimes end up with three or more syllables (”mamama”), especially when she’s excited.
• Uh-oh – usually said when she drops something, regardless of whether or not it was really an accident…
• Duck – pronounced “gack”, but distinguishable by the trained parental ear from dog (”gahk”).

She’s also quite the mimic and likes to copy sounds like the squeak made when we clean glass surfaces, or the animal noises we use when reading books. Her favorite is the sound a monkey makes (oo-oo-ah-ah).

Gestures:

• Sign for “eat.” (One of her favorite activities.)
• Sign for “more.” (Seriously, the kid can put it away. She once ate half a kid’s meal at Outback Steakhouse and those are supposed to feed kids up to 10 years old. When we have another child I’ll probably need to get a second job just to put food on the table…)
• Points to nose when asked and working on locating eyes and toes.
• Waves bye-bye and hi.
• Loves to clap. Will do it upon request and anytime anyone else is clapping.
• Working on both high and low fives.

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