Things Niya Can Say

Yum Yum (when hungry or she sees food) sometimes as a statement or sometimes as a song "Yummy Yummy Meeeyum Meeyum!

Mee-ow (when she sees or wants to see the cats)

Blub Blub Blub (the sound a fish makes)

Sniff Sniff Sniff *she makes the sound with her nose and wrinkles it up* for (the sound a bunny makes)

Bath

Night Night (when going to sleep, usually when just pretending)

La La (for a stuffed gorilla)

Mowse *Mouse* (for her stuffed mouse)

No and No No

Yep!

Mama

Dada

BaPa (for Grandpa Jeff)

Bloob Bloobs (for blueberries)

poop (said, usually, at diaper changes and almost always in a whisper)

Boob

Bob (for her BOB stroller)

Noodle (occasionally, at random times... usually after we have recently had noodles and she has had time to think of the word)

In (when cleaning up toys and putting them IN the boxes)

Doggie Doggie (her name for her stuffed "Soggy Doggie")

Bye Bye (usually said while waving goodbye)

Nose

Bug (for her Wheelie Bug that she rides on)

The rest of her communication is pointing and grunting, or just bringing you the thing that she wants to show you. It seems like she has a new word for us to learn daily. Sometimes they are said completely clearly, and other time, it takes some repetition and some context for us to understand her word for a particular item. It has been so fun to hear her talking! :)

Time with Grandpa "BaPa" Jeff

My dad was here for an awesome visit with Niya... they had so much fun together!!! :) Here are a few pictures that we caught (these two are a couple of camera dodgers for sure)!

Story time... again!!

Big girl birthday books!

A stuffed gorilla

Checking out all the present and paper together!

I'm so glad we caught some pictures of their time together. By day two of the visit, Niya was calling Grandpa "BaPa" and they were the best of buddies!

Daddy Can Read Really Fast!

Daddy is hilarious!!!

Our Little Goofball!

Last night we finish reading books before bed, and our last book was "Bear Wants More" (which is one of the Karma Wilson books -author of Bear Snores On... which are fantastic books). In case you haven't read these, in both books the bear is asleep or falls asleep at the end. So we finish the book and Niya promptly leans her head back, closes her eyes, opens her mouth, and makes this long "Aaaaaaaaaaaw" sound... it took us both a minute (staring at her in surprise and confusion) for Daddy to figure out that she is pretending to be the SNORING BEAR!!!

It was hilarious... once we figured out what she was doing, we laughed pretty hard. If I can ever capture this on video, I will. It is super cute!!! :)

"Please stop squeaking at your tomatoes!"

Sitting at dinner...

Niya picks up a tomato piece (which she doesn't want to eat) and stabs it onto her plate "Eeeek" she says, as if killing it! Done with that victim, she moves on to the next tomato... tiny arm out-stretched like a crane, picks up the tomato off the table with all five fingers strait, swings the crane arm over the plate, and bringing the full arm down on the pointed fingers holding the new victim... "Eeeek!" she shouts victoriously!

At a loss for anything else to say (and trying not to laugh) I utter: "Please stop squeaking at your tomatoes!"

A totally ridiculous phrase in any context!

Ahhh the joys of parenting, you can sound totally insane on a daily basis! :)

Really?!?

Niya (age 1): [confidently] Poop!

Me: Really? I don't think so, I just changed your diaper.

Me: [checking] Nope you don't have poop! Where's the poop?

Niya (age 1): [with a rascally smile] Dada!

Me: [laughing] really?!?

Poor Dada, he got blamed and he wasn't even home!

But, really, are any of you surprised?

Crazy Cute Overalls

Our wonderful friends Jake and Nilda sent Niya these crazy cute overalls for her birthday! We think she has just the personality to pull these off.