We have a winner!

At long last...long, long last...my child is officially verbal. For the past few weeks Sam has been imitating our speech more and especially our intonation. Every so often we'd hear a vowel or consonant that was very similar to what we'd just said. As usual though it was never certain when he would make these sounds that he actually meant them as words. He would yell, "Mamama!" when pissed off at me, like when we'd stop nursing before he was ready (well, excuse me but he was going off and on over and over again and was looking away - God forbid I cover up the nummy!), but that seemed like more of a random expletive, if you will, as opposed to a word with an intended meaning such as, "Mommy, please do not cover your breast yet for I am not quite finished feeding." But this morning that all changed.

As we prepared to go grocery shopping I told him we needed to put our shoes on so we could go out. He went and got my sneakers and brought them to me. I said, "Thank you so much for bringing me my shoes." And he said, "sho." "Did you say shoe?" "Shess." "Shoe!" "Shs." And then we called Hubby on the phone because his word was deteriorating quickly. "Say shoes to Daddy." "Shiss." Works for me.

And so it's official - a first word. I was sure it would be car, but shoes are cool too. I'll take it.