Quack Quack!

Over Memorial Day weekend, Leah said her first word! Duck! It first sounded like "Dut" at first, but yesterday and today, she started to get the "ck" sound and can say "Duck" clearly now when we point at one of her duck toys. We've been using the word duck a lot, since she loves her baths in her duckie tub with her rubber duckies, and she has a few other duck toys, too. So it's not a huge surprise that duck is her first word.

In fact, she loves her duckie tub so much, she killed it over the weekend and we had to buy a replacement. This time it's pink!



For some time now, she's been standing up in the tub, and then she plops back down and makes a big splash, and does this over and over again. It makes me a little nervous, but she loves it. She also loves to try to drink the water in the tub, and when I use the shower spray on her hair, she sticks her tongue out to taste the water. This girl loves water!

She stays in there forever and it's hard coaxing her out of there sometimes. She even stands up and holds her arms out to pretend that she's ready to come out of the tub, and then smiles at me and plops back down and splashes. Sometimes I just drain the water out and she'll still sit there. She's fascinated by the texture of the tub and loves to inspect it. She'll stand up and kiss the duck's head and pull and reach for the duck's beak, which makes quacking sounds when you press on it. She's really rough with it, so no wonder there's an air leak.



She still loves the old yellow one and gets really excited when she sees it in her room. I re-inflate it for her and she jumps on it, turns it over and pushes it around the room.