Can we keep it???

We've loved watching Noah learning new words for the past few months. So what if they're not pronounced correctly?!? We can make them out.

Here's a list of the one's I can think of at present:

• Mama
• Dada
• Bella (Ba)
• Dog (Do)
• Woof (Oof)
• Baba
• Water (Wawa)
• Down (Daaa)
• Up
• Eyes (Ice)
• Book (Bookkk)
• Ball (Bo)
• Shoes (Doos and sometimes we actually get shoe)
• Socks (Docks)
• Button (Butt)
• Fish (Ish)
• Bath (Baaa)
• Eat (Eat/Eas)
• Annaliese [Noah's friend (Iese)]
• Light (La/Ight)
• Airplane (Aipai)
• Catch (Tatch)

These days it seems he's learning a new word almost every day. Just today he learned to say choo choo when I was making a train sound. But our most favorite word ever is belly button. It's just the way that he says it that gets Steve and I every time. He says it with a sort of accent. It sounds like "bay butt" only with a european flair. It is so cute that we tried to get it on video because we're sad that he may one day stop. I hope he keeps it. Well, maybe just until he starts school so he won't get picked on.

We'll that's it for my first post but just to make it official, here are a few of my favorite pictures from Noah's first year of life:

This is still my favorite shot of the three of us. It was Halloween night 2008 at our neighbor's house and ended up being the shot we used on our holiday cards.