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It's hard to beleive that Daniel is almost one and planning is underway for his first birthday party.... - well, to tell the truth, I have been thinking about his party for quite some time, ever since I saw that martha stewart episode about throwing a monkey themed birthday party. I assume watching that episode while I was pregnant had no influence on his current love of climbing on top of any and everything, throwing food on the floor and eating 'na' s (bananas). He really does merit a monkey first birthday party:) It is pretty easy to figure what Daniel loves best of all if you look at the "words" he has figured out so far. Or I probably should say, WE have figured out so far.... "Ba" is ball. His first and favourite word. This kid LOVES balls. "Duh" is Dollars, and "Di" is Sid. Second only to balls, is his love for the cats. He adores them, his face lights up whenever he sees them. They of course take any eye contact from Daniel as a cue to hightail it out of the room:) But sometimes they let him play with them a bit, particularly if he sneaks up on them when they are sleepy and mellow. - he is pretty gentle MOST of the time. Hmmm, he does "ba ba" for bottle pretty regularly in context. Sometimes, I think he says "ma ma" for milk. -and only occasionally do we get "mama" and "dada" in what might be context for us. Apparently we just aren't as high on his list of priorities;) More commonly I hear a "da" that I think is his version of "david". I feel like baby translator here:) , but that is what I love, to watch as they both figure out new things. Today, David and I played Hi Ho Cherry O and I thought to myself "wow, I am playing a board game with my baby!!!, craziness"

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