One smart baby

When Bobi brought Aigerim home from Kazakhstan she was not quite nine months old -- way too young to talk.

Aigerim has a stuffed pig of whom she's very fond. Almost from the moment she saw it she's been calling it "n'Goita" or "Nyáh-do" or "Nyáh-da". (We live in New Mexico, so of course we've been repeating this as "Nacho" or "Puerco Nacho".)

But she also uses this word for other things. Typically, she'll repeat it insistently, arms outstretched, while leaning way out from whomever's holding her, as she tries to reach some object.

Lately Bobi has begun to think this might be a word from the Baby House. So this morning we pulled out the Langenscheidt Russian to check. A search in the English section for "want", "give", etc. turned up nothing. But then I flipped over to the Russian section, and there it was:

Надо - need, want

What an awesome little girl.