"Duck"!?

Georgie, 1 year and 2 days, said her first word: "duck." We're pretty sure.

About a week or 10 days before that, she was sitting with me on the couch, and I was holding a duck, and she was wrinkling up her face and saying "du."

Then, the night of her ducks and daffodils birthday party, me, Papa, Uncle Adam, and Georgie were hanging out, and we showed her a duck and asked her to say it again. She was saying "du" and "du" and "du" and sometimes "duck" (Aaron and I wanted a very very clear "duck," but Adam was certain and kept looking at us like, "she's saying it!"). Anyway, she said it with intent and in the right context, and we're pretty sure we heard that "ck" and the end.

The next day at lunch she said it for me and Nana (Nana was pretty sure she said it; I was a little less so but I think she did).

Then the day after that (yesterday) she said it on the phone for Grandma.

She usually crinkles up her nose and has a huge pause and then an explosive "d" when she says it. And she gets it -- I hold up a duck and say, "What's this?" and she says "DU[ck]"

So there you have it. Just like her cousin Samantha before her .... Georgie's first word is "duck."