Elly's words - and steps!

Our little Elly turned 17 months on Saturday, and took her first, unsteady steps from Mommy to Daddy! We have waited a long time for that to happen, and I have no good explanation why it happened then. Her confidence increased somewhat - her record is 8 steps - though she is mostly still crawling everywhere. We are very excited.

Elly's speech is also taking off, and we thought it would be fun to record her first words here. (List not in exact order) :

1. Daddy (dada)
2. Mommy (mama)
3. bye-bye (buh buh) (also uses for night-night)
4. no
5. ball
6. fish (ish)
7. that (da)
8. down (dow)
9. water (wa wa) (for drinking water, baths or lakes, etc.)
10. go
11. kitty (kih-tay)
12. up (uh)
13. baby
14. book (ook)
15. Pooh (00h)
16. Meredith (muh-ith or mer-mer)
17. Ellen (eh-wen)
18. Junior (june)
19. Michelle (Junior's mom) (ju-mama)
20. cheese (eese)
21. duck (duh)
22. Grandma (gra-mama)
23. whee (for deciding to slide down)
24. all done (ah-da)
25. eat (ee)
26. Sadie (suh-duh)
27. teeth (eeth)
28. uh-oh
29. shoe (shoo)
30. sock (ock)

signs:

1. milk
2. all done
3. eat
4. more
5. bye-bye

-JRR