Maeve’s First 10 Words, Recent Photos

Maeve riding on my back on our hike in the Santa Monica Mountains about a month ago. Photo by Carrie

Our daughter Maeve is 15 months old now. Going to post a fairly quick sort-of scrapbook post here to get down what she’s up to at this age.

She’s talking… I think she speaks about 10 words which she started using in roughly this order:

• mama/mom,
• dada/daddy,
• dog [which is kind of “dah”],
• bye,
• no,
• yah,
• ball [which is kind of “bah”],
• baby [which is kind of “bay”],
• yum [which she says num-num-num which means generally postitive comment on eating/food]
• chick [my wife Carrie heard this, I didn’t – and it’s in the baby chicken sense – from the book Barnyard Dance, one of her favorites]

So maybe it’s a few less than ten? She also uses gestures – pointing  a lot, more-or-less clapping her hands (at least making that motion.) She raises both arms toward us to ask “pick me up.” She understands a lot more: shoes, nose, chin, kiss, diaper, bath, potty, etc.

She was pushing around this toy, really, then stopped to pose for the photo.

She’s definitely mobile