Sweet Talky Girl

Talking is totally my favorite milestone.  I’ve had some babies that have stressed me out keeping me waiting for it, and others that seemed to be born doing it, but I love watching language develop every single time.

Tonight when I was reading the kids their bedtime Bible story, Coraline was toddling around entertaining herself for a while and then came over to the sofa to fuss at me about something.

“Coraliney,” I said to her, in quite a serious voice but completely joking, “use your words.”  The kids laugh when I say this to her, because, of course, she is a baby, and she doesn’t have words.

And do you know our sweet baby stared me right in the eye and said, “Ahhh…  {deep breath} Pppp!”

“Did you just say ‘up’?!”   Her face lit up with delight, and I grabbed her up onto the sofa with us.  She didn’t stay there half a minute before she wanted down, and she completely derailed our Bible story, but I’ve never seen her so pleased with herself.

This brings her total word count to about a dozen.  Not particularly spectacular for a young lady of nearly twenty months, but certainly respectable enough.

“Hello” is our favorite.  Witness her skill with the tongue on the L sound.  That’s some technique.

 

5 thoughts on “Sweet Talky Girl

  1. the way we are programmed/equipped/create for language is fascinating. my step-sis had her 1st when they in Vienna. she/hubby spoke English at home but had a nanny who spoke French. amazingly, as #1 grew (I think they left when 1 was 18mon), she could tell which words belonged with which (though likely more which person than which language!) sponges!

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