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.
Her method of saying “hello” is WAY more fun than mine… 🙂
My 5 and 3 1/2 year olds can’t make an L sound.
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!
ignore the typos….blame the meds
I love the way she said that!! Too adorable!