Daddy: Ok, baby. Look at the camera. Say cheese, baby.
I look over my husband's shoulder, grinning foolishly as I often do when taking pics of baby.
Me: Say cheese, little one.
Daddy: Say cheese! (snap, snap goes the camera)
Baby: Tsheeeze.
Us: Huh?
Baby: Tsheeze
Me: Mother of god, he just said cheese!
Husband: Quick, grab the cheddar!
And just like that, baby went ahead and said his first recognizable noun.
To say we were excited would be like saying Romeo only sort of liked some girl whose name starts with a J. We were elated and in a mad rush to reinforce this new found word, my husband quickly ran to the fridge, grabbed the cheddar and began feeding chunks to our very eager (and cheese hungry) baby. *side note: Baby caught on very quickly those first few minutes that when he actually said the word "cheese", Daddy would swiftly break a chunk of cheddar and feed baby.
Additional side note: We also learned very quickly in those first few minutes that cute children can easily, and without warning, manipulate their parents into getting anything they want.
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September had been such a month of significant firsts for baby and I. We had our first plane ride, our first trip to the East Coast (holla, Hali!), his first dip in the Atlantic (which he loved), and now his first true word. And really, cheese is a pretty cool as far as first words go, don't you think?
Since the vocabulary frontier has been broken, baby's words seem to flowing out of his little mouth. Cheese has quickly made room for other words like, "please" "apples" "juice" and "la la" (short for Charlie,our family poodle and his BFF) And with every new word, we squeal at its cuteness, lift baby high in the air and sigh at how fast he is growing. Oh, and how demanding he is for a good brie now. Geesh.
