At 14 months, Hazel has two words and several signs. Her first spoken word (mastered right around the start of the new year) is mama; she pronounces it clearly and uses it correctly. Her second word is more, which sounds like "moa" when she says it. Moa means more, and it also functions as an all purpose statement of want. She'll point at something interesting (a book, her doll, my phone) and demand "moa, moa, moa" until she gets what she wants or is successfully distracted with something else.
For a while, she has known the signs for milk, food, more, and all done. As of tonight, she apparently also knows bath. After dinner, she started patting her belly and trying to take her shirt off while saying "moa, moa, moa." (The sign for bath is to make a thumbs-up fist and scrub your chest, so belly-patting is a reasonable baby approximation.) She was delighted when Aaron figured out what she was telling us and started her bath.
Hip hip hooray for communication!
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