Da-Da-Da

The weekend before Thanksgiving, I went on a mad shopping spree and Steven stayed home to watch Ryan (and college football). When I got back, Steven said that Ryan was babbling all day long. Ryan is generally pretty mute. Ryan usually cries when he's upset, hurt, hungry, etc and he shrieks/yells when he gets excited about things. Before bed time, he's more prone to laugh and just vocalize, but never really babble. Most of the time, he's fairly quiet. Sure enough, Ryan was just babbling away. He kept on saying da-da-da. It was so cute in his high pitched baby voice! He did it again on Sunday, a little bit on Monday, but that's been pretty much it. He'll say it sometimes if you urge him too, but otherwise, he's back to being fairly quiet. We're counting da-da as his first word.

When we got back into town from Corpus on Sunday, Ryan started saying "hey Daddy" in a low voice. It was the weirdest thing ever and Steven and I couldn't stop laughing out loud! We don't know what happened to our sweet high pitched da-da-da! Now if we can only get him to realize that when he says da-da that it's Steven he's referring to!