22 months: li’l communicator
Posted by laralynnian on 02 Apr 2009 at 08:55 am | Tagged as: Uncategorized
At 22 months we have regular conversations with Melina, and her memory’s growing deeper.
She still asks to go swimming every time we pass by the Berkeley High warm pool (until last week we hadn’t swam since October!) only now she actually says “I wanna swim” instead of just saying “Mama, uh oh!” as we drive by on the way to Kai’s school.
The other day we had plans to babysit our neighbor Max, who’s the same age as Meli. I told Melina first thing in the morning, and until Max arrived two hours later she asked for him by name at least once every ten minutes. At one point she even said patiently and politely, “Mama I want Max please.” Two days later she picked up a computer mouse, put it to her ear, and said “Allo? Mats ome?” (Hello, Max home?) Her first crush?
Other fun communication tidbits:
- “Mama, ALL DONE!” screamed incessantly after just 10 min of “napping.”
- “Mama, see flowers/bus/doggy/people” as she looks out the car window.
- “Thor pop balloon” when she saw the cat a full two days after he popped a balloon.
- “Bachie” for her blankie.
- “Uppie down” for upside down.
- “Cockydoo” for cock-a-doodle-doo.
- Joey’s favorite: “machine” for the grill, which daddy affectionately labeled the meat machine.
Daddy also taught her a cool new trick! Watch the video below.