BKah Babble

R is starting to say words! Last week she even said her first sentence (in kid speak) - "Aww Waa Mama!" (translated as "I want Mommy"). I was very surprised, mostly because I don't get to hear her all day and see her progress step by step. So it seemed to me that all of a sudden she was saying words and trying to copy us and then was asking for things. Wow!

Here's her current vocabulary:
"Mama" = Mommy, although she uses it for several people in the care-taking mode
"DaeDae" = Daddy
"BehBeh" = for E (possibly trying to say the end of her name)
"Dawg" = Dog
"Bubbuh" = Bubble
"Aah Pool" = Apple
"Mao" (with hands rubbing her cheeks) = Meow (for cat)
"Ball" = obvious... Ball
"Dah" = That
"Galg" = Golf (E taught her that one on the way to church, there's a driving range and golf course just before our exit in Livermore)

Other signs that are R is growing up fast. She's walking. She's talking. She's getting frustrated when she doesn't get things her way and in her timing. She's wanting to do everything her sister does (eat milk with her cereal, read long paper books and paint her toenails). And I've had to twice pull handfuls of pants from her drawer because they were too short.

And not to forget E ... here's signs that she is growing up fast too. Making up her own songs (so cute). Having complex stories to her playing. Sitting down and "reading" books she knows all the words to, to R. Getting excited about going to school next September (3 mornings a week!). And trying to argue her way out of things and getting frustrated when our answer is still the same ("Sorry, honey, the answer is still no." "Arrr, you're not listening...!") .