Rose and her best friend

Rose loves Fozzie (and vice-versa, though Fozzie's love for Rose may be entirely food related). She pets hinm very gently and gets very excited to see him (and other dogs). She likes to hand feed him not only her food, but also his dog food. He actually tolerates it pretty well.

We are also officially declaring Rose's first word to be "doggy," which she says more like "gaa-goo" or "kaa-koo". She started saying this just before we went to Italy, in early September. She is a little over-broad in her application, since she uses this word for all animals.

She also says "hi," "bye," and "baby". She seems to think she says a lot of other things, but we can't tell what they are so much yet.