This morning, as we were getting ready to leave, I had to put the car seat from David’s car in the car next to Lanie so my parents could use it today. Well, the only time Alana has ever seen me put another carseat next to her is when we have gone somewhere with Rylee and Cassy. So, when I put it in, she started to say “na-na,” which is what she calls all of her friends that are around her size ever since we spent so much time with Anna (whom she called “na-na”) in Norway. Well, since she has been calling Rylee “na-na”, I told her that no, Rylee wasn’t coming with us, and then she said in her sweet little voice, “Ry-ree.” It’s really the first time she has gotten out anything close to Rylee’s name and it was just so darn cute. Of course, she immediately went back to saying “na-na” everytime I said Rylee after that, but I know she CAN say it when SHE wants to!

As for her friends that are a bit bigger than her, them she calls “me-me.” It started when she started calling her friend Amy that but now it just seems to be all children older than her. We were out for ice cream last week and there was a little girl there probably around 6 years old, and she started calling her “me-me.” Then we had someone over to the house who had her 5 year old son with her, and, again, “me-me.” So we have an awful lot of na-nas and me-mes around!