Riley’s words

If you listen closely you can now pick out some words amidst Riley’s baby babbling. She’s of course got “mama” and “dada,” and I think we’ve posted before about “cat” (although it’s not really “cat” so much as it’s just a hard “Caa” sound). Now she’s added picture (“pic-shh”) and book (bah) and ball (bah, but somehow slightly different then book). She also says “baay-bee” a lot and it sounds just like “baby,” but it doesn’t seem to be in reference to anything in particular…

I’d also like to say again that, as is often said, parenting really is the hardest and yet most rewarding job you’ll ever do (i guess some cliches are true). Riley is awesome and I love her more then anything, but sometimes she’s really difficult, and sometime she breaks my heart, and she’s only one! This week she was teething and had a bit of fever from her vaccines so she couldn’t go to daycare, and mostly wanted to just be near us and sleep in our arms, and eat on our laps instead of in her high chair. It’s a nice feeling to be the protector, who can make her feel safe and comfortable. But then we went to the park one day and she only wanted to play with our nanny Maricella’s sister-in-law, and wanted nothing to do with her parents! Felt like a preview of the teenage years…

So everyone be nice to your parents.