Firsts

I don't often have enough time to write in this blog. I don't have time for the scrapbook. No time for the journal. ugh! she is growing so so so so so fast and every day something new happens. I want to catch the big bits of her life as well as all the small simple things. But I've neglected to note much of it.

That said, I now make time to note that tonight she said my name, Mama, for the first time. Not her first word, which was "Hi", but her first "Mama."

I was in the kitchen stirring Spicy African Peanut soup and she'd been on the bed for a long, boring time waiting for me to come back. Babbling, then Mmmmmmmommmmmmm babble babble mmmmmammmaaa.

It feels unbelievably great.

In other news, she grabs everything, including the glasses from our faces, pens, knitting needles, sharp knives, broken glass from the floor....etc. Talks to strangers on the bus, makes fart sounds, and LAUGHS! The laughter is pretty new too, started last Saturday when I got the hiccups and apparently it was hilarious. Oh, and she's discovered The Vagina. Every diaper change now, the hands shoot down, yup, still there. She's growing up so fast!