Quick Trip to Italy

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We were lucky enough to make a quick trip to Italy this month in honor of Gioel's cousin Avi who celebrated his bar mitzvah in Milan. Here are some of the pictures from our fabulous week. For some reason the album in in reverse chronology. Maybe one day I will get around to fixing it!

Luca Walking

Luca's Words

Here is our tally for Luca's 1st words at 1 year:

Mama
Dada
No
Fan ("ah-juhhhh")
dog
duck
ball
palla (italian for ball)
Nonno
Nonna
banana ("nana")
bye
hi
hello (with hand to ear as though on phone)
blackberry ("blugh-buhhh")
bottle ("bum-boh")
nose
pool
egg ("ggghh")
Grandma Ellen ("eh-yah")
Pop-Pop
water ("wa-wa")
woof (copying dog sounds)
baaaa (for sheep)
moooo (for cow)
Donna (his nanny)
Elmo
barba (beard in italian)

Some of the commands he understands:

Brush your hair!
How big is Luca?
Quanto e grande Luca?
Batti le manine!
Clap your hands!
Where's the fan? Where's the light?
Where's your nose?
What's the train say? (Woo! Woo!)