The First Words

I know that babies don't start talking until much later in life, but Daphne is really starting to get this down.

She spends a lot of time awake now, and likes to spend that time looking up at her mom and cooing and talking.

Jared and I have been spending a lot of time looking at her, and using one word "Hi" anytime we are talking to her when she is awake. She has started to learn to mimic the motion of the mouth, and she has a pretty convincing hi now. We are going to work on Hello.

I know that it's not by the book, but Jared and I are chalking her first word up as hi spoken on 30 April, 2007. Call me crazy, but I'm just a devoted mamma. You'd have to be in my position to understand.