Ellie is really starting to pick up speed with her words.  She regularly says, “Uh oh,” “Baba”, “Yiayia”, “YEAH!!!!”, and “Bye!”.  She has also several non-word sound that she uses at specific times to mean specific things.  For example, she say, “Nuh-winnnnn” when she’s doing something particularly fun.  I love hearing that noise because it lets me know that all is right in Ellie’s world!

What is conspicuously missing from that list above is, “Mama.”  She still doesn’t consistently use my name, perhaps because I’m always around and she doesn’t really ever need to call me.  We actually play a pretty fun game where I ask her to say, “Mama” and she answers with “Baba”.  (Baba, by the way, is what we call Nik – it’s Greek for Dad.)

Here’s Ellie and I playing that game!