Alyssa’s vocabulary has really been taking off, once more.  It’s hard to count how many words she now knows, but she has been actually repeating many of what we tell her, coherently, lately.  It’s really cool!  Some of her new ones are, “open”, “Elmo”, “up”, “down”, she even knows & can say her own name!  We even got her to say her Aunt Ashley’s name on the 4th of July, as well as saying “Nana”, but only one time for each word.  She wasn’t up for performing much that day, I guess.  Still, it’s really cool to watch her little mind work & pick up on things.  She has been singing the ABC’s now, too, as well as she can.  She gets a few of them right, although most of them are just mumbles, for the most part.  She’s just a’growin’ & we couldn’t be happier!