Our girl's language development is exploding. It's amazing to watch her learn new words and try out new sounds on a daily basis. She is so interested in words and communication - desperate for it, to make herself understood, to communicate with us and others, to join in conversations. She isn't afraid to try out a sound, even if she can't quite do it - very unlike Sebastian, who wouldn't say something until he was sure he could do it right. She occasionally gets frustrated when we don't understand, but mostly she just talks on.
She is also very good at leveraging her few words into many concepts. She delights in showing you that she's understood you by trying to mimic a word or two, or more often distilling your long, complicated explanation into one key word. (So you'll explain why running with wet feet leads to falling down and injury, and she'll point at her feet and say "no. boo-boo." Or she'll point at something and say "Mine? Own".)
Some fun recent word sounds:
Fu-fu. Bunny Fufu! She learned to call her bunny by name! Now, of course, she demands Fufu whenever she gets a little tired or upset. It's very cute.
Tee-tee. Thank you.
Cue-me. Excuse me. (She's very polite, our girl.)
'Top. Stop. Usually used to address Sebastian, in a usually fruitless effort to make him stop something annoying.
Ahpuhl. Apples, pineapples, plums... Really, most non-berry fruit.
Bagel. Yum.
Nack! Snack. As in, dried fruit and nuts in her little Oxo snack cup. Very specific.
Nay-nay! Naked! Our girl loves to be naked.
Toot. Always followed by a giggle.
Lellow. Yellow. Also orange. She also seems to grasp the concept of blue, but she calls green and red things blue too.
Mine? Me? Mine!! (She sounds like the seagulls in Finding Nemo)
Own. As in, get your own, you can't have mine. Very useful word for her.
'Ome. Home.
Aya. Her friend Alex Krapf.
Babee. She loves babies. Loves loves loves.
Shuhbuhl. Shovel. She loves to carry around her favorite bucket and shovel, just in case I find some sand for her to dig. Anytime we go to the playground, she has to dig for 15 minutes before she'll move on to anything else.
Baba. Or something like that. Really, it doesn't sound anything like the word she wants to say, which is playground. But she keeps trying because she loves the playground and wants to tell me to take here there.
Broke. Our elevator was broken for a week or two and it made a strong impression. So now she knows how to say broke.
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