Baby’s First Word … what???

So my kid said her first word last week.

What?

Yup, she did. I guess we’ve got a prodigy on our hands.

In the past week or so, Evalyn has really found her voice. She will spend hours and hours – more like minutes and minutes - cooing and oohing and gahhhhing.

She talks to me. She talks to her Daddy. She talks to the Christmas tree. Heck, I’ve even caught her talking to the wall a time or two. She has definitely acquired her mother’s gift of gab. And I couldn’t be more proud.

The other evening, Evalyn and I were chillin’ on my bed and she was babbling away like crazy.

I decided that her Nana would probably like to hear her chatter, so I gave her a call.

We got her voicemail so I said “Hi Nana. This is Eva. I just wanted to call and say hi”.

Then I said, “Evalyn talk to Nana”.

She responded by cooing and aahing.

I said “Evalyn say Hi to Nana”.

And that’s when she did it.

My 9.5 week old verbal genius said “HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII”.

And I nearly died. I could not believe it. I just started laughing so hard and hung up the phone. Because, well, you know, I didn’t actually expect her to say hi. But she did.

So you better believe that in her baby book on the “First and Favorites” page it’s going to say “First Word – 9.5 weeks – Hi”.

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**My mom saved the message on her voicemail and I’m trying to figure out a way to record it somehow. If and when I do, I’ll definitely try to share it.