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Maegan continues to talk and talk and talk. We recognize a few of the words:

--Bubble. She says this most frequently and quite clearly. I think she says bubble when she sees something round...not just soap bubbles.

--Cheese. One of her favorite foods. Sounds like "gee".

--Shoe. Sounds a lot like her version of cheese, believe it or not. Sounds like "jew". We have a ritual when we get home; we all take off our coats and shoes, and they go in the closet. She can put away her own shoes and likes to help with the coat. She throws a fit if we don't put everything away right away.

--Daddy. One of the words she's starting to say very clearly. Maegan is Daddy's girl.

--Ball. Since the weather has warmed up, Maegan enjoys playing outside and cries when she has to come in.

--Bread. Her favorite food.

--Milk. Sounds like "mo".

--Juice. Sounds like "jew".

She has one baby sign she uses for when she wants a drink. She made it up and it looks like she's throwing a football repeatedly. Our friend Mike said either she wants a drink or she's saying "go long!".

Tami (daycare) baked brownies last week for her daughter's birthday. She told me that all the kids had one neatly at the table, and then she left the room to change a diaper. When she came back, Maegan had pushed a chair up to the counter, climbed up, and had both hands in the brownie pan. She had brownie all over her face and up her nose. :)

As you can see in the picture below, Maegan likes to haul a blanket around sometimes and make nests for herself. She sits down and arranges the blanket on her legs, and then realizes she must get up to get something, like a book or a toy. Repeat. Repeat again.

This weekend, she took all the pillows off the couches and made a tower. Each time she added a pillow to the pile, she would say, "There!" It was especially cute because some of the pillows are bigger than she is, and she was very determined to carry them and stack them all.

Oh, and she says "Elmo!" I was surprised that she knew who Elmo is--we don't have any Elmo toys here, but they do at daycare. When I asked her who was on her diaper, she clearly said, "Elmo!" She identifies all Sesame Street characters as Elmo.