Rae Rae

The Rae Rae has started to talk. Which is a good thing and a marked improvement over the screeching that was heretofore her only method of verbal communications. Rae Rae's extensive vocabulary includes the following:

• RaRa (Petra...you have to admit, it's not the easiest name for a 17-mos-old to say)
• He...llo
• Dank...Yuuuuu (Thank you)
• Uuuuuuuuppppp (self-explanatory)
• Mumma (me)
• MummaDada (Natche)
• Ca-cker (cracker)
• Ouuuut (again, self-explanatory)
• No No No (said in rapid succession with finger wagging)
• NauNau (naughty...surprising she knows that word. I mean, she *never* hears it)

Don't get me wrong, we still get a ton of screeching, writhing baby-on-the-floor moments, but it's nice that she's starting to communicate verbally....well, with words.