Things Freya says

Not sure what the "rule" is for how many words kids are supposed to know by 18 months, but we have been delighted with the things Freya's been saying of late:

• off/ab
• donkey
• Lucy
• fish/Fisch
• out (directed at dogs in kitchen, complete with a good imitation of our pointing gesture)
  
• jacket/Jacke
• up
• down
• cookie/Keks
• poopoo (a remarkably reliable announcement of what's going on in her diaper)
• sock/Socke
• shoes/Schuhe
• Mama
• Dada/Papa
• "Bo" for Beau
• "Goca" for Mocha
• Apfel (oddly she only uses the German word for apple)
• car/Auto
  

So far, English dominates her vocab, but she is already getting very good at using German with me. It's pretty entertaining to watch her stubbornness duke it out with her hunger when she wants a cookie from me and I ask her for the German word. About 75% of the time she goes in search of Steve :-)