For our far away friends, it’s time to share an update on Athena’s language skills. She is quite a talker at times, and she is very comfortable to interact with others in social situations. She definitely makes her intentions and desires well know to everyone.

If you haven’t seen us in person lately, here’s what you’re missing:

Clothes:
Sock, shoe, shirt, hat

Body Parts:
Eyes, nose, ears, teeth, toes, hair, cheeks

Sounds:
Doo Bee (short for Do be do be do, which means penguin)
Hop, hop (frog)
Glub, glub (fish)
Woof, woof (dog)
Meow (cat)
Peep (chick or bird)
Roar! (Chewbacca the Wookie and also lions)
Quack, quack (duck)
Choo-choo (train)
Vroom (car)

Animal names:
Duck, dog, cat (She prefers sounds over names.)

Foods:
a-pple!, pizza, cracker, heethe (cheese), yogurt, grape, cookie (usually in reference to Cookie Monster), howbeez! (strawberries)

Other things and expressions:
Hat, bath, ball, tree
Elmo, Happy (name of her doll)
Daddy, mommy, bra-bra (brother)
No (usually very emphatically)
So (said while holding her hands up in the air to show us how big she is)
Uh no! (I dropped something – or threw something on the floor and I want it back.)
Oh, na! (All purpose phrase meaning I want that, help me, look at me, pick me up…)