Wednesday's Winning Words

If I was smart and as well organized as I would like to think that I am, I would have video proof of what I'm about to tell you.  But, given that none of the words are related, it would be a bunch of video snippits, mostly of me talking in a high pitched voice in effort to elicit the verbal gold that Delaney has embarked upon sharing.

That's right, our child who didn't appear to want to talk for the longest time now says at least the following words (with her own precious toddler spin on the pronounciation):

Mama

Daddy

Justus
No (of course)
Oh no

Hi

Bye-Bye

Puppy

Please

Thank You

Boo

Nose

Eyes

Duck

Ball

Milk

Aubrey (friend at school)

Abby (friend at school)

Cheese (both for the food and to smile when camera is pointed in her direction.  Of course, now that I think about it, maybe it's the thought of the food that makes her smile when a camera is pointed in her direction)

Pink

Purple

Apple

Blueberry (this one came out of nowhere yesterday, when she repeated me saying it)

I'm sure that I'm forgetting several, but clearly, she's really taken off on this language thing.  This is one of my favorite stages because it's like she comes home each day with a new word.  It's no surprise or coincidence that the class she's in at school now is the "Parrots" class!  It's really an amazing developmental stage because at this point she understands so much of what we say and can follow all kinds of directions, knows people and things when we talk about them, but doesn't have the full language development to respond or even always repeat the words.  How frustrating it must be!  Of course, this is what leads to tantrums, which we've also seen quite a bit of recently.  We wait with anticipation about what the next words will be and will revel in the joy of each one of them as she finds her voice.