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Gwen, I swear, learns new words every day. Here’s some new ones:

truck (guk), up, down, Mummy, bus, pumpkin, drill, hammer (hammo), level, screw, vacuum (da-doo … promptly followed by a sucking noise), baby, banana (baba), toast, cracker, downstairs, upstairs, nose, hands, toes, Bowie (Yep, David Bowie. Don’t ask.), space, barrel, basket, coat, shoes, teeth (teese), bagel, cheese, button(s), ball, ouch/owie/ow, light, Uncle (ukka), hot, this, that, pee, diaper, paper, blueberry, duckies (referring to her Duck Crackers), arm, bottle (as in water bottle), juice, bum

Oh, and our favourites - “no” and “mine” - which she yells all. day. long.

I’m sure I’ve forgotten some words. But gosh darnit, when she talks it’s the cutest thing ever.

I bought a Graco Soft Seat Potty Trainer a few weeks ago and have been sitting Gwen on it once or twice a day. Normally, she sits for a minute and then emphatically announces, “UP!” and then stares in it. And giggles.

(She’s really far too cute.)

Today, though, it had been almost 3 hours since she’d been changed, so we headed upstairs to change what I thought was going to be a SOAKED diaper. She was dry, so on the off chance something might happen, I plopped her on the potty and handed her a book. I was going to read it to her, but she pulled it out of my hand to look at the pictures and immediately peed!

YAY!

I know it doesn’t mean that she’s going to potty train even REMOTELY soon, but I was pretty excited that she peed on the potty. I think we’ve got a pretty smart cookie on our hands who will figure it out fairly quick once she puts her mind to it, and hopefully with a few more happy accidents like the one today, she’ll figure it out sooner rather than later!

Gwen tries to mimic everything. But she’s got quite the little vocabulary of words she actually uses correctly! Here are her newest words.

• elbow
• light
• up
• outside
• ears
• glasses
• apple
• hat

My favourite is when she tries to say ‘architecture’, as it comes out ‘akipoo’. And glasses sounded like ‘asses’, which is also very entertaining.