Elise is learning so much so quickly. She's talking nonstop now. A lot of it is sweet little baby babble, but she's becoming very effective at communicating her desires, too.
Elise knows that if she asks "please" then her odds of getting what she wants increase dramatically. So she says it a lot. And now she's using two or three words together, remembering to ask please first. Today Elise asked, "Please apple?" for some applesauce. It took me a minute to figure out just what she wanted, but it made sense once I figured it out because there is a picture of apples on the little fruit cups. And she's been asking, "Please more Dada?" to get Husband to come back in the room at bedtime and give her another kiss. How could anyone resist that?
She's all about body parts lately, too. You only have to tell her something once now and if she's interested, she remembers. She knows all kinds of body parts-- neck, elbow (she calls it her "elmo"), arm ("arma"), nipple, bottom, teeth, cheeks, chin. Oh, and she calls her tummy her "tucka." Not sure where that came from.
Elise is still obsessed with her vulva. The other day at the library she had to go potty. The whole way to the restroom, from one end of the kids' section to the other, she'd take a few steps, grab her crotch, yell "VAAVAA!" and then repeat the process. Embarrassing.
Oh, and she points out her toe booboo about 10 times a day. She calls it her "bubba" and she'll point to it, say "bubba," and then make a sad face. Poor baby.
She's a pretty cool kid.
Mikey is getting words down too. But I think he's conditioned to think all animals are referred to by the sounds they make.
ReplyDelete*pointing to tiger* "Mikey, what's this animal?" "RAWR"
"Use your words: how do you say tiger?"
"RAWR"
"Ok, close enough."
-Maggie
Elise does that too! even for words that i know she is capable of saying, she'll still make the animal noise. the only animals that she calls by their real name are duck (but she says a duck says "duck duck") and a bee (which she thinks says "beeee beeee" because she can't do the zzzz sound). no wait. Elise calls a bug a buggah. And SOMETIMES she'll call a bear a bay-yah. usually it's a rawr rawr, though.
ReplyDeleteoh my god. you should hear her turkey. instead of "gobble gobble" she just flops her tongue around in her mouth and makes this ridiculous noise. i need to get a video of that.