On the day she turned 10 months old our little Olive pointed right at the neighbor's dog and proclaimed "da!" Oh, I thought, how weird; it was almost as if she was trying to say dog or something. The dog's owners, parents of four, including twins a month older, flipped. "Oh my God she totally said dog! She's talking already???"
Nah.
And in the three weeks since it has become clear that Olive IS talking, and that she is not only understood by us but also others. WTF?
"Ah da" is, of course, all done. It is most commonly used to express that her high chair tray is empty. It has also been used, very sadly, on more than one occasion during wiping when she had diaper rash. That'll break your heart, your 16 pounder crying "Ah da! Ah da! Ah da!" The girl is cursed with my crappy super sensitive skin and the diarrhea her brother brings home from Kindergarten. Sad Ollie.
"MmmmmmmmMA!" means more (food) or "I see that you are eating and haven't offered me any. Dude!" Sensing a pattern here? Anyone?
She says "ma/mama/mom" a lot, mostly when things aren't rosy, and of course her favorite happy caretaker word is "da/dada." I swear to God she bats her eyes and has this "you're my hero!" look as she breathlessly slo-mo whispers "da" at J and then lunges from my arms to his. It's so disgusting it's actually cute. But disgusting.
Speaking of crappy skin, my traveling eczema recently took up residence in my belly button, which is especially itchy since I have scars there from surgery. Olive has decided that my reddened innie is a third nipple and keeps trying to nurse from it. Watching her dive bomb it is deeply disturbing. Experience with this? Anyone?
Yeah, I didn't think so.
3 comments:
What a little prodigy!
The third nipple thing is TOO MUCH, though.
Oh.. that tiny little peanut. It is now time for you to provide us w/audio... please?
The talking thing takes you by surprise, doesn't it? I recall the first few sentences that Lorielle spoke. I kept thinking "wanapay?" What is a wanapay? My mind wasn't thinking in sentences so i was trying to put a single word to "want to play". I'm sure it was the same when she started with the words. It took a while to stop expecting random sounds and start realizing it was a word.
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