More First Words

As my wife has written about, our little girl's vocabulary is now over about 100 words. She's strung together several words - mostly two word sentences, but some three. "Bounce the Baby" is one of the three - she says that when she sits on a pillow and bounces up and down on it. There's more that are two words "Baby Bye-Bye", and "Hi Daddy", and tons of 'em.

One thing that we've been trying to get her to say for awhile now is her name. She recognizes the word as her name, because if we ask here "Where's Samantha?", she'll point at herself and say "Baby". So she knows the name, but the words is obviously too difficult for her to say at this stage. So last night I decided to take another path. I said "Can you say Sam?" Much simpler. Much to my surprise she said it! Last night was the first time she said her name. Now she only said it once, but she did say it.

As cool as that was, one thing that Daddy found cooler was that she also said a word he's been trying to get her to say since birth.. That's "baseball". She said baseball once too. Daddy was all over that!

So last night Daddy got to initiate two words, Sam and baseball. It was a cool moment. Then we went right back to "bounce the baby". :)