In passing I was wondering what my first words were as a child. Unfortunately these words were not carefully collected so I can only guess that they were as follows:

Food, doggie, mama, daddy, football, milk, candy, hamburger, photo, computer, movie, tv, lisa, grandma, walk, money, car, truck, and poop (or a derivative of the word), down, hungry, funny, giggle, tickle, coffee, and bye bye. I also have always had a fondness for the word gulag because it sounds like a beef stew but I doubt I knew what it meant or used it often as a baby.

I am not sure what our daughter's first words are going to be. I hope they aren't anything out of the ordinary. I am going to try to edge out Sarah in the first words race and try to get the little one to say daddy or dada before she says mommy or mama. It is a noble competition and while there is no bet between Sarah and myself I'll be happy to announce the winner for anyone else who would like to bet.

We went to the doctor again for a check-up today and saw the little girl floating around inside of Sarah on the ultrasound. She has grown to be 2 lbs, 8 oz putting her in the 66th percentile for her developmental stage. I hope this doesn't hurt her chances of getting into certain pre-shools since I heard you need to be in the 90th percentile or above to get into something exlusive. But this isn't actually measuring anything other than weight and people would probably discriminate against her if she was too big. So this weight is just perfect for us for now.

My father's first words were carefully recorded by my grandmother. They were sent to me by my mother today in an entry from my grandmother Louise's book called Babyhood. She also has a list of Judy's words at 15 months.

David Housman's vocabulary: 15 months old -- October 31/47

mama, daddy, Mary, Louise, bottle, milk, cracker, apple, books, egg, dig, hair, hot, up, shoe, diaper,Jackie, bye bye, doggie, see, light, socks, baby, car, no, no more, I see you, foor, dirty, pussy, plane, bus, soap, ball, hello, this, what's this, rain, water, soon, tickle, thank you, down, good