Red Letter Day for Mommy!

I'm still a little sick and certainly more than a bit exhausted...but all of that disappeared this afternoon when I heard the most wonderful sound ever...Sweet Pea was looking at the thank you card that her Cousin O had just given her...



She was looking at me and did the sign for mommy and then said "Mama"!  I couldn't believe my ears, but I definitely heard it.  I practically had tears in my eyes but it didn't end there...

She then signed baby and I said that yes, that was Angel.  I then pointed to Sweet Pea and she patted her belly and said the first syllable of her name too!

Now this isn't the first time that she has said either...Daddy heard both before, but it was an evening about 2 weeks ago when I had left to go to a training.  She had said it while looking at a personal book that Grandma had made her with photos of all of her family.  When Daddy called me on the phone to tell me about it, she wouldn't repeat them (she's not one for performing on demand).

So now that I am floating on air...I'll get down to my original idea for a post today...

Sweet Pea has been making HUGE messes of her toys recently.  I took this photo of the aftermath on Friday...



The photo is okay, but it doesn't show the flair and commitment with which she destroys a room.  Daddy captured this on video today...



And another skill that she mastered today...twisting the yellow and red knobs on the pop up toy!  The green one pushes down and she has had that for months and months.  She can only do the blue and purple in one direction.  Earlier in the week she was working on the yellow and was twisting the whole toy in an attempt to get it to work.  Today she did it correctly all on her own!  And then I showed her the same skill could be used on the red one and she did it again and again too! Here is a video of her showing off her new skills...



Obviously we couldn't be more proud of our little Sweet Pea!