Earliest words:

  • Dada
  • Olga
  • Hot (pronounced HOTTTTT)
  • Baba (We called her baba)
  • Tickle tickle
  • 'Neto (Ernesto)
  • Bye
  • Birdy
  • No no no

(Next 9 to 15 months):

  • Mama
  • Baila (dance in Spanish, but she uses it for both music and dance. also, this is one of her favorite words, and she insists on us playing music often.
  • Up!
  • Nose
  • Eye
  • Ear
jan 23 2011 ∞
jan 23 2011 +
  • Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
  • Epitaph of a Small Winner by Machado De Assis
  • Lolita by Nabokov
  • The Collected Writings of Winston Worthington
  • Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo by Oscar Zeta Acosta
  • Collected Writings of Borges
  • Red-Headed Sinners by Jonathan Craig
  • A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
nov 1 2006 ∞
nov 1 2006 +
  • Tufted Titmouses
  • Pileated Woodpecker
  • Red-headed Woodpecker
  • Downy Woodpecker
  • White-Breasted Nuthatches
  • Red-Breasted Nuthatches
  • Bluejays
  • Canada Goose
  • Red-tailed Hawk
  • Black-capped Chickadee
  • Cardinals
  • Dark-Eyed Juncos
  • White-Throated Sparrows
nov 29 2014 ∞
nov 29 2014 +
  • Kinglets (four)
  • Brown Creeper
  • Downey Woodpecker
  • Common Yellow Warblers (many)
  • Grosbeaks (both males and females)
  • Pelicans
  • Catbirds
  • Cardinals (dozens, literally, both male and female)
  • Bluejays
  • Red-tailed hawk (in marsh area by the beach)
  • Wrens (four, singing beautifully)

(more coming ... can't remember at the moment)

oct 12 2007 ∞
oct 12 2007 +
  • Red-bellied woodpecker
  • Hummingbirds (three, green and yellow)
  • Catbird
  • Cardinal (male)
oct 12 2007 ∞
oct 12 2007 +