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So I’ve got three words now. My first word was “E-I-E-I-O”. You can listen to me say that on a couple of my recent videos. Lots of times I miss the “O”. I’ll just say “E-I-E-I-E-I” or “Yie-Yo”. I also like “E-I-E-I-Go”.

I also say “Hi” a lot. A couple weeks ago, when my dad got home from work, he said “Hi, Lia!” and I said “Hi!”. That made him happy.

I’m also trying to say “bottle”, but I pretty much just say “Bao”. I say that one all the time, whether or not a bottle is involved.I just like to say it.

This is a video of me on Father’s Day, singing old MacDonald. I kind of say “E-I-Goo”, but I’m just improvising. The things you should notice here are:

• The face I’m making when I sing.
• The cool shirt I got for father’s day. Dad tells me that it says “KID” in binary.
• The dance I do at the end.

Also, I can’t sing while sitting down.

So, my dad finally put up the videos. The first one is my eating my birthday cake. Actually, I guess it’s me not eating birthday cake. Cause I didn’t really like it. In the video, I put a piece in my mouth, but decide against actually eating it, so I take the piece out. I get kind of upset about the frosting all over my fingers too. People were laughing at me, but I just don’t like having messy hands. Besides, I was really more interested in playing with the rings from my new birthday toy. It’s really cool - the rings stack up on this middle spoke thing.

In the second video, my dad keeps trying to get me to sing. He’s all happy cause I sing the chorus from Old McDonald. And I know that E-I-E-I-O isn’t really a word, so we can’t call it my first word, but it’s my first song I guess.

I’m laughing at daddy in this video cause he’s doing this funny walk where he’s squatting down to record me and walking behind me.

At the end of the video I climb up the stairs. I don’t usually do it unless someone is right there, cause I’m scared to fall, but I like showing off in front of the camera.

My birthday party on Sunday was fun. Lots and lots of people came over and had food. I got to eat a lot of new things, like meatloaf and grilled vegetables. I don’t like the vegetables so much cause they’re slimy, but the meatloaf was real good. I also tried whole milk from a cow for the first time, but I don’t like that sippy cup thing so much. Why can’t I just use the bottle?

I got lots of cool presents. I got a lot of books, and a bunch of cards. The cards were fun to play with. And I got this spoke thing with different colored plastic rings that go up and down it. I’m not good yet at putting the rings on - I miss a lot of the time - but I’ll get better. And I got my own cell phone. Not the old one that mommy used to use - that one doesn’t do anything anymore since they took out the battery. This one is big and colorful and makes noises! It says “hello” and “goodbye” to me!

But my favorite present is my new car. I’m not good at getting on it myself yet, but I can push myself around on it once daddy sits me on it. And it’s got a horn and a radio and a place to hold a phone! And you can lift up the seat and put stuff inside. I like to push it all over the house. Daddy says he’ll put up a video here soo so everyone can see me on my car.

They gave me cake too on my birthday, but I didn’t like it. I put it all over my face and in my hair, but I didn’t like to eat it. And I got frosting all over my hands and I couldn’t get it off no matter how much I shook my hands. It was stressful.

But I had a good birthday. Yay! I’m one!