My Smart Girl....

Those who Noelani, know she had a frenectomy back in March of 2010. If you don't know what that is, basically, if you look under your tongue, you will see a "string" of skin that connects the bottom of your mouth to your tongue. When Noelani was born, her skin was attached completely to the tip of her tongue. She was able to suck a pacifier and bottle, so she never had the surgery to release this "tongue-tie" right away. As time went on and her first birthday passed, we started to notice she couldn't use some of her sippy cups properly. The biggest thing we noticed is that her speech really had not taken off the way we thought it should. The only sound she could make was "ti ti ti ti" and her tongue could not pass over her teeth.
Needless to say, we decided to have this fixed. I think it was the BEST decision so far we have made as parents!!! I would say almost 3 days later, she was already making all new kinds of sounds we had never heard! We were advised to have early intervention evaluate her to see how she evaluated for speech. Once that evaluation was done (she was 14 months old) - she was right on target. We don't know yet if she will have speech issues or not...but so far she is really a chatter box!!!!!
I wanted to use this post just to share that she knows her ABC's and LOVES her flashcards that we do each night. She can get through ALL of them and repeat almost every single picture you tell her now. Of course, when I take the camera out she gets shy, so this is the best I could get:

Here are some words/things she says now:
Mommy
Dada
Papa
Nana
Riley (Nana & Papa's dog)
Lawry (this is how she says her uncle larrys name)
Ol-ver (my friends dog oliver)
Up (quite frequently it's Up Pwease)
Pwease (Please)
More
Eyes
Eat
Drink
Milk
Juice
"Was dat?" (Whats that?)
"I see you"
Duck
Baby
Alright
Apple
Doggy
Pool
Hungry
Home
Help
Sit.down (which she seems to always tell the dog - wonder where she gets that one - haha)
No
Teeth
Cheese
Queeeeze (squeeze when she runs up to hug you)
**Edited to ADD the following**:
Auntie
Hi
Hello
Bye Bye
Alright
Pound (dada taught her how to "pound" with her fist lol)
O-Phie (Sophie - my sisters dog)
Alty (One of our cats Salty)



*There's SO many I am sure I'm missing some!!!* She NON stop chatters all day!!

She can count to 5 on her own....up to 7 if I help her. She is CONSTANTLY counting around the house. Counting things in her books...counting as she walks up and down the stairs.
She can do ALL of her ABC's....she does need to repeat us, however she can always tell you what comes next (if we say "A" she says "B"....we say "C" she says "D" and so on). It is really cute because she thinks "C" is "C's" (I suppose I understand that since we DO say ABC's in her defense LOL). And when we get to "I" she always says "EYES" and points to her eyes.
She knows how to point to the following body parts:
Chin
Feet
Head
Eyes
Ears
Nose
Mouth

She knows almost all of the following animal sounds:
Cow
Cat
Dog
Lion
Bear
Horse
Elephant
Alligator (she snaps her hands closed)
Bird
Duck

Well - I think thats all for now...I wanted to make sure I kept track of as much as I can! And I can't forget my lovey girls best thing she does which is when she says "MOMMY" and I ask her..."What baby?" and she goes "MMMMMMMMMMWA!" and puckers up for a kiss.
My oh my how I love my little girl!!!!