Alli's Vocabulary

I thought I would jot down some of the words that Alli knows:

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Cheers (yes, we like to clink our cups together and cheers and then drink)
Mommy
Daddy
Doggy (or Baggy, can't really tell)


And then there is this phrase:

"Ashes, Ashes, all fall down!"

I would say we are just guessing at that phrase as she walks around babbling it, but she did it in the swimming pool in Payson over the 4th of July weekend and I said "are you doing Ashes, Ashes?" and another mommy said "sounds like it to me".

And we think she is reciting some of her ABC's, in her own special way. :)


Tonight I let her explore her "independence". I decided to give her a bowl of baby food with the spoon and just let her feed herself while I made the rest of our real dinner. She actually did pretty good - dipping the spoon in the bowl and then putting it into her mouth. Of course, by the time I finished dinner prep and then went over to the table, I found she was also using it to paint, splatter the dog, and rub through her hair. :D Everyone got a bath after dinner, including the high chair.

But then she showed me just how smart she is. After bath I put her in her diaper but didn't put her jammies on - I left them on the floor of her bedroom. After playing for a while in her bedroom, then living room, then kitchen, she walked away into her room. I was still in the kitchen picking up and she came walking back with her jammies. I thought "Wow, she's decided she wants to go to bed? Or she's cold and knows this will warm her up?" But as I got her dressed a smell came to my nose and a new thought... "I pooped and I know that I need to be changed, so here are my clothes." I'm gonna guess it's the latter, which makes me pretty impressed at her understanding of things at (almost) 14 months old. So proud!