Chatty Cathy
One of my favorite things about Zoe these days is that she’s constantly learning and saying new things. She seems to pick up things overnight; almost every day we’re treated to a word or phrase that she had never before said. (“Did you teach her that?” Q and I often find ourselves asking one another.) Her sentences have started getting longer, also; the other day, for example, she said “I want a banana.” And one of her favorite things to call out is, “Mommy/Daddy, where are you?” (Needless to say, she likes it when we’re around.)
As a parent, it’s great fun to hear these new words on a daily basis, and it’s particularly rewarding to actually understand what could otherwise be dismissed as jibberish. Zoe kept asking for something over and over the other morning, and Q and I were quite relieved when we finally figured out that what she wanted was stickers. And just yesterday, when I put her down for a nap she repeated the same (hard-to-understand) sentence over and over until I figured out what she was asking for. “Oh, you want me to read the bumble-bee book?” I asked her (after inquiring about a few other things), and she nodded in a victorious manner. She was probably thinking, “finally!” but I was pretty proud of myself for finally figuring it out.
-M
September 13th, 2008 08:26
I can hardly wait to see Zoe again and understand more of what she was trying to tell me. I do not know about her, but I was frustrated when I could not understand what she is telling me some of the times. Having a conversation with her will be so cool, and I know that it will happen before I know it.