In a total Daddy coup, Paul has succeeded in teaching Betty to say "HuWhat!" Like in the Little John sketches by Dave Chapelle. She says it to her toys, to me, to daddy. There's nothing like getting up in the morning, wrestling a diaper onto her, wrestling her into some clothes, getting her downstairs:
"Do you want your bah (our word for bottle)?"
"HuWhat?!"
"Mommy's making you a bah."
"HuWhat?!"
"Okay, Mommy's getting a bah."
"HuWhat?!" (starts to cry and crawl into the kitchen after me)
"Your bah."
"Yeah. Yeah. (cries) MOM! DAaaaiii. HuWhat?!" (cries until the bah is ready and Mommy sits in the rocker and feeds her while we watch 'It's a Big Big World')
To recap: Betty's words are "Mom" meaning me and only used when things have gotten very serious. "Daaaiiii" meaning Daddy and used frequently. The first word she obviously understood the meaning of. She'd say it and look around for Paul. "Yeah" meaning usually yeah. "HuWhat" she has no idea what it means but it often makes Mom and Dai laugh. "D'Go" her version of "There you go" which Mom says all the time when giving her something or finishing dressing her or diapering her. She says it to Mom and Dai and to her stuffed animals. It's her version of "OK" or "All done". "Gooooo" means she's ready to go or finished with something.