Say what?

Lately, Olivia's vocabulary has been exponentially growing.  It seems like daily I hear her say at least one new word.  Until recently, her vocabulary was a little slow to develop.  It seemed like at one point she went months without adding any new words and she was slow to repeat or mimic words she was hearing us say.  But that's changing and we are developing quite the little talker.  She hasn't yet reached the point of sentences and is still only putting together two words at a time, but I'm sure sentences are just around the corner.  Here are a few of the things that she's saying that I want to remember from this stage:

• "Bye-bye Beebo" - Olivia has a book that's about the belly button and in the book they refer to belly buttons as Beebos.  So Olivia has taken to affectionately calls hers the same.  She has a pair of one piece footy pajamas.  You know, the kind that zip from the foot up to the neck.  Since her Beebo goes bye-bye when they get zipped up, she has started calling them her Bye-Bye Beebo jammies.  She also says "Hi Beebo" in the morning when we unzip them.

• She has started counting.  It usually goes something like "Two!  Eight!  Tive (five)!"

• Olivia recently picked up the word "Guy".  We occasionally have men stop by our flat for maintenance work or to delivery packages and she always calls out "Hi Guy" or "Bye Guy" which usually produces a chuckle out of them.

• Even though she knows their names, Olivia refers to certain animals by the sounds they make rather than their names.  For example, monkeys she calls "Ooo-Ooo" (after Ooo-Ooo, Aaa-aaa), dogs are "Wow-wow", cats are "Meow" and an elephant is "Pawooooo".

• Olivia knows and recognizes all of the letters of the alphabet, but can only pronounce about two-thirds of them.  She hasn't yet mastered certain letters that are trickier to pronounce such as S, F and W.

• She currently LOVES all things Winnie-the-Pooh and Mickey & Minnie Mouse.  She refers to both Mickey and Minnie as "Minnie", but when she is specifically referring to Minnie, she calls her "Minnie Bow".  I also hear a lot of "Tigger bout (bounce)" followed by her jumping around.

• For whatever reason, she hasn't gotten the hang of the word yes.  She doesn't even attempt it.  Instead, her response when you ask her if she wants something or is in agreement with you is "Huh".  She has been saying this for months and months.  Not sure where she picked up that one, but I'll be excited when she finally moves beyond just Huh.  

• Olivia and I talk a lot about baby sister joining our family soon.  She recognizes babies when we're out and about and she knows where baby sister's room is, that baby sister will have poo-poo and drink milk.  We also talk about the fact that baby sister is going to have body parts just like her.  Except teeth.  She seemed pretty confused by this at first.  But I think she must have figured it out because now when we talk about baby sister, she says "No, teet (teeth). Huh, mout (mouth)".