Sophie has had SO much to say today. She's been saying water, telling her friends, No, and I even saw her "talking" on the phone saying Hi Dada! So cute :) Sophie and Lucy are also such best buds- this morning in the gym, the two of them had lots of fun taking turns looking through the little door then giggling!
Speaking of Sophie talking, we've been jotting down all the words Sophie's been adding to her vocabulary and so far, at 14 months, 3 weeks, and 3 days, we have:
Dada
Mama
hi
bye
water
Mo-mo (Elmo)
toh-toh (for her teddy bear- don't ask... we don't know why either)
ball
flower
duk (for dog, duck, squirrel, pretty much any animal she sees...)
more
wah-goo (wagon)
milk
walk
book
read
hold
no
up
pour
night night
sit down
bah-bah (抱抱 ("bao bao", which is "carry" or "embrace" in Chinese)
baby
bah-na (banana)
ah-pool (apple)
cheese (which is weird since she's never eaten cheese before and can't)
We're really encouraged by Sophie's verbal development. In the literacy project I worked on, we learned that toddlers start making common consonant sounds like t, d, w, and n by around 16 months. Learning to make these sounds is a pretty profound event, one that evolves into the rapid vocabulary spurt at around 18 months. At this stage, they're supposed to mostly still be just sounds, so the fact that Sophie's using them in meaningful words at close to 15 months is really exciting. It's been so wonderful watching her and listening to all these new words she's picking up (even listening to her talking jibberish makes us so happy). Everyday, she's a little more able to verbally communicate with us and I think it exhilarates her as much as it does us. Each new word is a tiny epiphany for her as she realizes that the sound she's making means something to us, and that she can use it to articulate her wants and needs (which is both a good and bad thing, of course...)
It's just too awesome :)
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