Vocabulary explosion

Carmen's vocabulary has been growing exponentially lately.  I used to be able to list all of the words she knew in the order she learned them, and now I just can't keep track of it.  She probably knows a whole bunch of words I haven't caught on to yet.

This morning, we were playing and I asked her if she wanted to play with the baby doll.  She's been figuring out body parts (I'm a bad mom ... I never quizzed her on body parts and now I'm all shocked that she actually knows what a "nose" is.  I'm sure Your Baby Can Read says she totally should've known all of this 5 months ago!) and I figured I'd rather have her poke out the doll's eyes than mine.  ANYWHO.  I handed her the doll and said, "Baby doll." and she squealed, "BABY!!!!" and hugged it and gave it kisses.  IT WAS SO STINKING CUTE.

She's also recently learned the word "hat".  We have this head massager thingy we bought from Bed Bath and Beyond last year.  Our guy friends love it, but Carmen's hated it for the longest time.  It tickles and it's uncomfortable!  But lately she's loved it.  She was sitting on the kitchen table and pointed to the head massager on the bookshelf and said, "Hat?  Hat?" and Mark pulled it out and poked her with it.

"She hates that thing!" I told him.  (Really, she screams angrily at me when I play with her with it!)

"No she doesn't, she loves it!"  And Mark was right ... she was laughing.

No fair.  Carmen also lets Mark brush her teeth without complaining.  Luckyyyy!

Here she is flirting with our friend, Stu.  Hoo boy.

And here's a random picture from Mark's work.  She's such a happy little hilarious doll.  I love toddlerhood.