Hap! Hap!

You know a lot of words these days...we stopped counting when we could think of 70 words that you know, and that was a month or two ago. Now, it's probably more than 100; we've lost track. You come out with new ones all the time, which is exciting. Sometime when I have more time I'll put in our list off some of the words you know.

Also recently you started putting two words together to form little phrases. The first one, which I heard a while back, was "Abba bath." (You call your daddy "Abba," Hebrew for dad.) But you really took off with this last week: we were walking over to Lucy's house and you said, "Lulu's house." Now you like talking like this all day long: "Eli's shoes", "Mommy's plate," "Shiloh's bed," etc.

But the exact topic of my post: one of your new words is "help!" which you pronounce "hap!" When you need help with something, you call us, "hap! hap!" One of the things you sometimes need help with is opening the seatbelt of your toy stroller. You called me tonight, "Hap! Hap!" to help you get it open. You were so serious about it and so determined to get the seatbelt open! I asked you if I could take your picture before I opened the seatbelt, and you said no. So I helped you first, then took the picture. I think in another few minutes you wanted help again, to get it shut. That's the way it goes...lots of stuff to do around here.

Happy to help.