Your emerging bilingualism

You are asleep in your stroller next to me as I look out at a placid but colder Blektjern today. Hard to believe I hopped in just two days ago, but that's the power  of sunshine. What a strong name you have, Sunniva!

And as for naming things, your abilities are really starting to take off. You understand much more than you can vocalize, which is natural, and I am thrilled to see that you respond as well to  English as to Norwegian, which has been at least 80 if not 90% of the language you have heard in your first year of life.

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Well, you woke up after that paragraph and it's now almost a week later. You've turned one and your linguistic explosion is such that if I don't document your words now you'll have too many for me to remember!

You showed understanding of Norwegian first, already at 6-7 months when mommy would say 'lys' and 'kykeliki' and you would look to the light and the chicken hanging from our ceiling. She continued to teach you in this excellent and methodical way until you could recognize both of us in photographs as well as other objects around the house, raise your arms to 'hvor stor er Sunniva?' clap your hands or wave at 'klappe' and 'vinke.'

When I saw how quickly you picked these words up I realized I had to start speaking a lot more English to you, and with a bit more pedagogy behind my words (C'mon, Teacherman!). Happily, you seem to have inherited your parents' fondness and facility for language, and you caught right up after a few weeks of intensive EFL! Most amazing is to watch how you parrot us more and more, repeating just about everything we say and even picking up on words you know in sentences that aren't addressed to you. 

As of now, your Norwegian words are:
'mamma'
'pappa'
'den' - den
'bam' - bamse, vann
'jajajaja' - you sing along with 'trollemor' and say 'ja'
'nei'
'puh' pære, pupp
'bæs' - bæsj
'muh' - mer eller mat
'baby'
'datt' - from lille petter edderkopp
'hatt' - from lille petter edderkopp

'Broom' - (car sound)

'Nam' - yummy

'Bo' - bok

'Ja'

Har prøvd: kykiliki

And your English words are:
'mamma, pappa' (not quite mommy and daddy yet)
'bam' - bunny
'yes'
'no' (nono)
'up' 
'oww' - owl (you love watching Twinkle Twinkle Little Star w owl on iPad b4 bed)
'ayyy' (when I point to my eye; not sure if you understand the perpendicular pronoun yet)
'ot' - hot
'mow' - mouth
'muh' - more
'baby'
'hat'