19 months & lots of talking!

Andy's vocabulary has expanded over the past month.  I haven't been writing it down along the way, but for at least the past 2-4 weeks, he's been saying lots of new things.  He's also stringing together 3-4 words sometimes.  For the most part he has a language only I can understand (not even Jamie half the time), but it's improving.  :)

These are a few of the more recent and cuter things he says:

banana = nanaba
apple = app-oh
apple juice = used to be app-bee, now he usually just says app-oh and points high in the fridge
milk = hepsch (he's actually been saying this one for a few months. Not sure how milk=hepsch???)
bite or sip = hahtch - used when he wants a bite of your food or sip of your drink
water = aah-doo
please = peas
no - a new favorite over the past couple weeks
mine - also becoming a favorite
big = beeee and is accompanied by arms-open-wide gesture
small - I don't even know how to type what he says, maybe just "maaaaaa", but it's accompanied by thumb and fingers a short space apart held by his nose and his eyes scrunched up
bottle = bobble
flip-flops = be-bop
Kaylee = deedee (this is also what Kaylee called herself for a while)
train = choo-choo
snack = nack (his favorite thing to eat...a nack, nack, nack!)

Baby girl has a name!

So baby-to-be has a name now. Kaylee's suggestion (as I may have mentioned here previously) was Annabelle - surprisingly, a normal suggestion. Her boy suggestion was Zhu Zhu... Andy's suggestion was Bobby, though I doubt he had any idea what any of us were talking about, but after he said it the first time and it was met with thunderous laughter, that was his pick. However, after Jamie and I narrowed down our choices, we let Kaylee weigh in and we ended up with Ella Nicole Caesar.

I was sorting through Kaylee's old clothes this weekend and Andy kept running over and falling onto the piles and/or trying to run off with some. I told him they were Ella's clothes and he would then jump onto a pile while shouting "Lella dohs! Lella dohs!" And if you ask him, "who's in Mommy's tummy?" he replies either "bebe!" or "bebe lella!" (Or sometimes "bebe lella bebe lella bebe lella!")

Poor kid has no idea what's coming. :)