New words for Hannah!

Ice cream on the outside is just
as yummy as ice cream on the inside!

Tonight after eating some yummy chocolate ice cream with the family, Hannah was sitting at the table playing with a bouncy Tigger she has, and she dropped the toy. Cathy and I were talking in the kitchen, and Hannah surprised us (as she sometimes does) by saying, clear as day once you realized what she had said, "Tiger!" At first we didn't realize what she had said... then we were so excited! (She understands most everything we say, but she seldom speaks yet past "uh-huh" and "uh-uh" and "yeah" and "ap-pool"... you know, the yummy fruity red things. She's a big ap-pool fan... maybe even an ap-poo-holic. But I digress.)

So we gave her Tigger, and she played for a while, and I was doing something else when I heard her going "AAAAAH! AAAAAAAH! AAAAAAH!!!" Tigger had fallen down again, so I told her, "Hannah, if you need help you need to say 'Daddy!' or 'Mama!' instead of 'Aaah!' Let's practice... I'll go around this corner and you say 'Daddy' and I'll come right away!"

No such luck... no "daddy".

Then I decided to punt: "OK, Hannah... say 'Da!' and I'll come!" and as soon as I went around the corner, she said "Da!!" and I came right away! She did it a few more times, and then we tried her out on "Mama" as well (it's every mama's dream, you know, to hear the baby say "mama"). She said "Mama" right away! Twice in a row! And Mama came running!