"Papa!"

Oh, what a wonderful thing that has started in our house! I (Leif) was laying Anneka down for an afternoon nap on Saturday and although she seemed tired, she didn't seem to want to sleep. I was just about to leave the room and let her "cry it out", when she said in her sweet little baby voice, "papa". Well, as you can imagine the thoughts of letting her "cry it out" suddenly went away and I sat there with her rubbing her back trying to both encourage her to go to sleep and continue saying papa. As with some of her other milestones, she has taken off with this one. As she's playing, waking-up, going to sleep, or sitting in her high-chair she will babble away saying, "papa, papa." We have tried to encourage her to say, "mama," which you may remember she screamed out a couple of months ago but seems to have given up on. She does sometimes manage to get out, "mapa." It is evident that her language skills are going to grow qickly as she is decifering sounds. Also, it is cute, she loves to sing with her mama. Maybe we can get a video with that at some point here :).