First Sentence

I do have new pictures to put up....I will try to do that tomorrow! Just wanted to let you all know that she said her first "sentence". We called Michael today and she said "hi dadda" and "bye dadda". Cuuuutest thing. I of course had to prompt her.....but she said it :) Bet that was one of the best voicemails Michael has ever recieved.

Weekend Fun

Here are some pics from the weekend. We were quite busy getting all of our shopping done. Took Mads to the mall on Saturday morning - surprisingly not that busy. Were able to pick up a couple of gifts before she decided she didn't want to be in the stroller any longer. She wanted to hold our hands and walk through the mall. Not an easy task when you've also got a stroller and lots of bags to carry. On top of that, she didn't nap and got a bit cranky - so we headed home after about an hour. The good news is that we've learned to be extremely efficient at the mall, cause you never know when she's going to announce it's time to head home.
I also picked up these little green clips for her hair. You can see them in one of the pics below. I don't think she has enough hair for them yet, but I tried.
In other news....have you seen those Telus billboards with the hippo on them? Madeline looooves these! We see 4 of them on the way home from daycare and she gets super excited to see them. She's even started to point and say "hppo". Other new words: baby and more. She can also kind of say "apple".

Mads and her puppies

You can hear her say "woof" if you listen closely.

First Word?

Maddy has started to recognize that animals are different than people.
It's possible that she is also clever enough to realize that they have a different language and it's a language she has picked up and is now using to communicate with us. She has started to say "woof woof" whenever she sees an animal.
Yesterday she saw pictures of a cat and she pointed to it and said "woof". In Canadian Tire, she saw pictures of dogs on at least 5 different boxes (I'm now aware of the fact that almost every vacuum cleaner uses a picture of a dog on it's packaging) and started "woofing" at them.
Michael is encouraging this behaviour by saying "woof" back to her.
I'm thinking it might be best to try to teach her some English words instead.