"Nooo?" and other words

Xinyi is so vocal now! My favorite thing is that she is answering everything with "no." But it sounds more like "Nooo?"

Baby do you want to eat breakfast? "Nooo?"
Baby it's time to go... "Nooo?"
Baby do you see the letter Y? "Nooo?"

She wants to be so independent! This is her sitting in her swing, refusing help and refusing everything because she wants to buckle herself in. Baby do you want help? "Nooo?"

Sometimes she has a firm "no" but most of the time it has the intonation of a question at the end. It cracks me up!

Two weeks ago, she woke us up in the middle of the night crying/calling for "Mommmyyyy!!!" "Moooommyyy!" It's the first time she's called for me instead of just crying. I'm not sure if I'm proud... or .... :)

Here is my baby bird looking for food!

She also is understanding she can really communicate with words now. She often says things like, "Race?" when she wants daddy to race with her. She will say, "Find ____" when she wants help finding a toy. She even says, "Watch Elmo." (Of course, it's Elmo.) and "Watch Abby." (her new favorite Sesame Street character)...

Here is Xinyi with Nai Nai!

Xinyi had her first taste of rain, thunder and lightning two days ago. She watched the rain fall outside the front door like watching TV! She also started asking for "rain" yesterday morning. I told her the rain is gone, and she said, "More rain!"

Oh and she's been saying "Airpee!" for airplane. It's so cute!

Here is baby driving with daddy. Don't worry, we are parked :).

Baby girl loves her cousins, and her cousins love her!! Well, here it looks more like Gemma loves Archie, but she loves Xinyi too!

And the secret is out, we are having another baby girl in April 2017!

Xinyi is going to be a big sister!!

She did refuse to take a picture with mommy at the pumpkin patch though...

I'm not sure why she is pointing to the sky. She desperately wanted to ride the big kid rides, and then got scared once she got close to them. So maybe, she is telling me, mommy, let me plaaayy like a big kid!

Finally, Grammy and Grampy got baby girl an Elmo hat!

She loves it!

We couldn't get a good picture of the Elmo face, but it's there! "Elllmooooo!"

She also likes to yell, "Bus!!" for her favorite song, "The Wheels on the Bus..." Yup, we've made it to that stage... :D. But she continues to say more and more every day. She handed me something and said, "Hold" and watched me eating yogurt and said "Yogurt!" She asks daddy to "race" with her all the time, and told the football players on the TV to "run, run, run!" She surprises us all the time with new words and phrases... we love it and we love her!