Baby.

Kate has been blabbering for awhile now, with lots of bye-byes and da-das for anyone who'll listen to her. But here recently we have noticed her language really start to develop and it is so exciting! She mimics us saying "duck" all the time, and said the word when she spotted one of her duck slippers in her bedroom.

But our favorite thing right now is "baby" (bie-bee). One day a couple weeks ago while we were shopping at Babies 'R' Us, we walked past a box with a baby on it and she said "baby". It stopped me in my tracks but I thought maybe it was a coincidence. Then she did the same thing at Kroger when we went past a box of diapers. Now, it's all we hear. On the side of our fridge we have lots of pictures hanging. Mostly ones of Kate, of course, but also baby announcements from friends. Almost every time we walk past the fridge now we hear "bie-bee!" Granted, she also called a picture of a cow at Chick-Fil-A a baby, and a framed picture of me and Nick. But nonetheless, we are certainly proud of our "bie-bee".