Congratulations on the birth of little Abigail. All my best wishes to the whole family.
My first "word", according to my mother, was "gali", which no one could make any sense of. Apparently I used it for everything for a while, holding long conversations with whomever was around: "Gali gali gali.. Gali gali? Gali!", or even simply talking to myself in "galis". Then all the other normal words like "papa" and "mama" started coming, and I haven't stopped talking since. On the other hand, I showed no interest in walking at all, much preferring to have people come to me to hold our grave "gali" discussions. I suppose I felt crawling about did the job quite well...
Oh and Bob, count me in as one of the "young'uns", although I have no idea what kind of criteria you are using here...

Aenigma thinks "gali" meant Galilee... reminiscences of a previous life, perhaps?