Within six hours of getting to my sister-in-law's beach house last week, Noah learned to say two new words:
"HEY!"
and
"NO!"
Both of those were environmentally based, I believe, because he suddenly had to stand up for himself to five other kids, all of them older.
He also learned to say:
"Wow!" (thanks to rides at the boardwalk)
"All done" (thanks to his cousin Ella, who is 12 days older than him. Now he insists on yelling "all done! all done!" throughout his diaper changes.)
"Boo!" (thanks to the nonstop game of peek-a-boo he played with me and my sunglasses one afternoon at the beach)
He liked the other stuff, too -- the sand, the waves, the rides, the cotton candy, the seagulls who run when you chase them.
And Sam, when I asked her what her favorite part of our vacation was, said: "My favorite part was the water park. No, it was digging in the sand. No, it was -- It was all my favorite part, Mom!"
It was a good trip.
BTW, to refresh your memory, here's what Sam learned at the beach two years ago.
