Talking

Sorry, these are about a month old.  I realized (about a month ago) that I never really documented Fiona's first words.  So Jon and I started a list of all the words she says.  We pretty much stopped once it got over 150.  I don't think she really had first words...she just started talking...and repeating EVERYTHING.  So here are some samples.  Enjoy.  Our poor second child.  If this is the best I can do with number one, I can only imagine how much harder it will be to keep up the second time around.  Maybe I'll be forced to be more organized.  :)

Update:  It made me laugh when I realized that Fiona is wearing the same dress/shirt she has on in this video.  And no, it's not a different one in a bigger size. I guess now she really has found her voice. 

Trash

Another favorite activity is picking things up off of the floor and telling me its trash.  Usually it is, and I ask her to put it in the trash can which she happily does and then claps for herself and says yay.  (This kid is going to lack no self-esteem.)  Mostly I really like this activity even though it does give me a daily reminder as to how dirty my floors are.

The other day while I was cleaning up the kitchen after lunch--which she refused to eat half of--she looks at me and says "mmm mmm" while chewing away.  Of course I ask her what shes eating to which she responds, "trah".  Awesome.  She'd rather eat crusty mac n' cheese (or worse) off the kitchen floor than lunch.

The game gets a little old outside when every little dead branch, leaf, crumb, rock, dirt clump, petal, etc. is picked up and handed to me as "trash".  So when she walked over the other day with her hand outstretched with her trash I was pleasantly surprised to see this.  And really happy she didn't eat it.  Or kill it...right away.

Unfortunately, she didn't really like it when I made it crawl around.  :(  Oops.

Keeping herself occupied

Usually when Fiona isn't in sight and is quiet for an extended period of time, I find her in her room reading books on the floor.  Guess she's found a new activity.  It got pretty funny as she shoved lots of stuff in with her, but then she just kept saying "stuh, stuh."  She was stuck.

Self-feeding:

Self-explanatory.