look who's talking now

Ada has been communicating more and more lately. Previous favourite words have included MORE, ANOTHER and most recently MUMMY. These are communicated with force to get what she wants.
More food. Draw another butterfly ("dabye" accompianed by fluttery hand gestures). Give me all your attention Mummy! Mama! Mummy!

There is a softer side to her communication now. We talk about babies a lot and she is so sweet! She gets a furrowed brow and mimes rocking a baby when we look at pictures of babies. She puts her dolls, baby and teddy to bed with the same concerned brow and little "night night". She looks very intense. Sometimes she gets a bit whimpery with the intensity. I thought a few weeks ago she may be ignoring my tummy, but now my tummy is on seriously high rotation for kisses, along with almost any animal in a book and the previously mentioned toys.

When the midwife visits she says baby about 100 times and then tries to mimic the heartbeat sound, mosty by saying tick tock. Last week she lay down in the couch, lifted up her t shirt and said mine after my examination. She seems to understand there is a baby in there!!

I love hearing her say nummy. We bring out play dough a few times a day. Most times she tastes a tiny tiny tiny bit and says nummy. Just once. I find it hilarious! We are on a mission to keep her being ok with trying new foods and hearing the pronouncement of nummy is so satisfying.

Lately she has replaced yea with OK, pronounced oday. Whenever we are checking we have understood her by repeating something back she says it. Like it was our idea rather than hers in the first place. It kills me. She sounds so agreeable.

"Drawdraw!"
"Would you like to do some drawing Ada?"
"Oday."

Ada hasn't strung any words together lately but she mimics lots of wee phrases and is singing more and more. Yesterday we listened to 'manamana' from The Muppets in the car and she was singing along halfway through. Good times!

Doh - pay