Mamma

Recently Ella has finally started saying "mamma".  It started when Addy had one of my old drivers licenses out and Ella pointed to the picture and said "mamma".  She still says "dada" more, but I'm excited to be in the cool crowd now.  And it is very cute when she actually says it!  She is pretty much a myna bird at this point and repeats almost anything you say.  New words I can think of that she uses regularly are

• Sissy for Addy
• thank you
• airplane, she has crazy good hearing and any time she hears a plane in the sky she starts saying "airplane"
• bike ride
• milk
• wawa for water
• night night
• meow for cat, plus a wide array of other animal noises
• Meme, Mary picked a good name, the other grandparent names are a bit trickier!  Tonight we were looking at a picture of Dad and she called him "meme".  Hey, whatever works!
• Heidi, this one is rough, but we've been practicing for Heidi's visit this month
• Elmo
• nana for banana
• apple
• apple sauce
• snack, this one is said A LOT as she opens up the cabinet and pulls out boxes of snacks
• buckle, either when she wants us to buckle her in her chair at the table or anywhere there is a buckle that she wants to play with
• all dum which is her way of saying all done - my favorite use of this was when Ella opened up the snack cabinet and pulled out a box that was empty (not sure why we had an empty box in there) and she brought me the box saying "all done"