language update

before I forget, Elise's language progress so far:

-- can say mama and dada (but not necessarily on cue), duck (duh!), ball (bah!), up (puh!), all done (duh!), and she has said a bunch of words once or twice like hi, blue, yellow, bye, leche, etc.  her language has really began to pick up in the last week.  i was trying to teach her blue and yellow a few days ago and we heard her say both pretty clearly but she wouldn't repeat it.

-- she understands a lot more.  when we ask her to get her bunny, she gets it.  when i sing "you are my sunshine", she sticks her finger into her cheek since it is one of the hand motions.  she points to her head, nose, and mouth (but doesn't always get nose right).  she definitely knows "neh-neh" and always signs for it while nursing.  she is starting to sign for "more" and "all done".  i'm not very good with teaching her sign language.

we used to be godparents for a baby and we were reminiscing last night that things got really fun right after a year and she was doing new things everyday.  i'm going to try to update elise's progress as it transpires.

oh, and elise is a full on walker now.  she still craws a little when she wants to quickly get to something, but she prefers walking over crawling.  we're kind of in shock.