My daughter is funny!

Anyone who reads this who is a parent of a kid that is at least as old as mine will probably recognize what I'm going to say. It will probably not come as a surprise to you.

It's been quite amazing to watch my daughter's personality come together recently. A lot of it gets unreported on, but there's so many little moments that are just ones I want to live in, and not be so worried about getting online and blabbing about to the world. My daugther is just over 14 months old, and already my photo collection on my computer has just about two thousand pictures of her. So I try not to get so caught up in "Oh, something happened, better log it". I do enough of that with pictures, so I don't want to worry about getting every moment down. But there are things worth talking about as she seems to have her own words for quite a lot of things. She knows what things are when we say them, she'll go get them, she's put a lot of it together. It's quite stunning to me to watch. While she can't say in English what she wants, she's figured out how to get the point across to us. However, there are words which are "right". She says cat well. She says "Cheese" pretty well, and the leads me into why I started this entry.

Today was daddy's day to watch Samantha as mommy was off at work. No problems there, I can handle that, although having a sore back isn't easy when trying to chase around a baby on the floor who can crawl at warp speeds. One of the things she seems to love a lot is cheese. One of the things we feed her is mild cheddar cheese. It's cut up into very small pieces, and we give them to her, and she'll go "MMMMMMMMMMMM" when eating it. She knows where the cheese is (the fridge), and if we go in there for something else, and she can see that, we usually get a "Cheeeese" out of her.

So today I was feeding her lunch, and today's lunch included some cheese. Well, this is where the funny comes in. Samantha has developed her own sense of humour. What we've done in the past is to interact with her during a feeding, we'll stick our head close and open our mouths and Samantha will "feed us". It's usually with Cheerios, but it works with other things too. However, lately, Samantha's sense of humour has come out with cheese. What she does is when you lean in for a bite, she'll put it close to your lips, and then snatch it back in a hurry, eat it and laugh at you. It's quite funny - as that's nothing we've obviously taught her, it's something she's started doing on her own. I of course had to get pictures of this, so I set up the camera in auto mode, and it took a bunch of pics - I got a couple from this today. Check 'em out below.

I now wonder what else Samantha finds funny in her mind which will surprise me. :)

One little amusing addon to this is that when Momma was giving baby a bath tonight, I mentioned that I was gonna make myself some Mac & Cheese for dinner. Not thinking at all about Samantha. She obviously heard the word cheese and went "Cheeeeeeeeeese!". It made both of us laugh, as neither of us thought anything of it. But Samantha heard "Cheese" for sure.

I love my daughter.

P.S. No, she didn't get that whole big block of cheese in the foreground of the pictures. Most of that went to Daddy.