Look who's talking!

Elijah has been trying to talk for a while now. He definitely intends to be saying understandable things - we just haven't been able to figure it out most of the time. In the past week or so, several actual words have become recognizable - "hi!" was the first and is the most frequent. He is also saying "baby," and seems to be saying "yeah," and "duck." They all still seem somewhat accidental, except that they come out regularly, and to some extent, in context. I'm not sure why "yeah" and "duck" are useful or so important, I mean anything he wants to say is cool right now - "yeah" is very conversational and usually draws a laugh, and he does like his ducky bath toys - but in the great scheme of things, I would have guessed something like "eat," or "daddy." "Baby" is useful, and important to him - he likes to point to pictures and ask who is in them, and he likes pictures of babies the best. He's still not saying anything resembling mama or daddy, despite the development charts that say that all babies say those things first. What a surprise! I will try to get some actual words on video sometime, so you can all enjoy with us Elijah's first baby words.