Forget the list of nouns- we're on to gerunds.

Apparently, kids develop in a non-linear way - a burst of getting taller, a period of brain growth, a period of just kind of resting up. I think that Skipper may be having some sort of crazy storm in whatever part of her brain is responsible for language - every day she's adding more words to her vocabulary, using words spontaneously that we didn't even know she knew. Today when I got home, Cook emerged from the kitchen with Skipper on his hip, and she said to me gleefully "Mama! Daddy! Cooking!" and before the evening was over, she was pointing out the window and saying "walking!" and pointing at Dutch (scuttling around on the floor) and saying "crawling!"

Brains. They're CAH-RAZY!