Lena's first real words

So Lena's been saying "words" for awhile now. Even words that mean something, like egg and hi. However, most of the time these words were used at inappropriate times. For example, pointing at the very LOUD birds in the tree in front of our house and yelling "EGGGGG!!!" as loudly as possible (I assumed she was competing with the chirping in her own special Lena way) does not count, we decided, as her first words.

So I am happy to announce, Lena has made her first attempts at real communication. Oh no, not to me of course, but to her dad. I was bathing her Wednesday morning (in the morning instead of evening because she poured juice on her head and her hair was standing up like Cameron Diaz's in Something about Mary and that is just not park appropriate. Anyway....) when Jason yells goodbye to her from the hall. He says goodbye to her every morning and sometimes she waves or smiles at him, but on this morning, she lifted her head up from her bath and yelled "bye dad!" at him, then went back to playing. We were both surprised and happy. She has not done it again, but at least she's finally starting!