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Say What?

I love how tots speak. Abby knows so many words that I’ve stopped listing them. She’s stringing more words together now, and can see the relation between similar things – according to Abby, my breast pad is a “mummy nappy”.

She loves frozen peas and calls them “cold pea”. When they’re cooked they become “warm cold pea”. Makes sense I suppose.

"Doll, teeth!"

The other day she grabbed her doll and a little monkey was tangled in the doll’s hair. She said “ooh ooh ah ah, doll hair”. She can’t say monkey yet – she’s only started naming animals instead of just their sounds. Her nursery rhymes book is now her “baa baa sheep” book.

She can say some things but not others. She can say “ice” and “cream”, and says “cream, bum” when I’m changing her nappy, but she can’t say “ice cream” – it comes out as “ice core” or “i core”.

When we sniff her suspiciously she says “No poo”, even if there is because she hates nappy changes.

After coming home from the park one day she stares out the window all sad-like and says “No more slide. No more swing.” So sad!

Sometimes Abby doesn't need words to whine

As we left the doctors’,  Abby had to say goodbye not only to the doctor, but also the chair, and the clock (which was actually the scales).

When I make her stop watching Hi-5, she says “bye bye Hi-5″ and even waves to the TV. When she wants to watch it again she fetches the remote and says “mote” as she shoves it in my direction. When she would rather watch it on my computer instead of the TV, she says “Hi-5 puter”, and attempts to fetch my laptop for me.

She puts my knickers around her like a necklace and says “unnie”. I tell her that the big undies are daddy’s, and she picks up another of mine and says “big”. Thanks honey.

It’s dangerous when kids start saying sentences. I know how literal and awfully honest kids can be – Abby is going to be a great source of embarrassment very soon!

Abby Update at 18.5 Months

Abby can read! Well, sort of.

Abby is able to recognise half the alphabet and a couple numbers now. She doesn’t say all of them properly but we know what she means.

(She learnt “Goo-goo Kay” from my Special K cereal…)

It’s impressive how easily she picks up new things and what she can process. She is able to recognise animals drawn in many different styles even though she’s never seen some of them in real life.

Abby can also name some colours now and will say things like “Car, yellow”.

She’s a real little talker. Take her anywhere and she’ll point and yell out things she knows like “Bird!”, or “Door!”, or “Cake!” Taking her to the bakery today was amusing!

Dressed like a pretty detective

We’ve reached a new milestone – Abby is sleeping in a “big girl” bed. She sleeps in it fine, but it’s getting her to stay in her room that’s a challenge now. She knows how to open her door and likes to come out and say “Hi Daddy”, or “Kiss?”, or something else that’s very cute but not helpful in getting her to stay in bed!

Wearing daddy's shoes because she can

Abby is beginning to like dressing up. She will try to wear clothes, jewellery, bags and shoes. With the exception of her gumboots, she can only put on adult shoes by herself. That’s a good start, but I wish it was nappies that she could change herself into – you should see her pooey nappies now, phwoar!

Abby Update at 17 Months

Abby is now a big sister, though she doesn’t know what that means. She knows that Cameron is a baby, but also thinks all children are babies – even those bigger than she is!

Abby with her baby brother

Her vocab is forever extending. I’m losing track of all the words she knows because she picks up new ones so easily. She can recognise a lot of the things in her picture book and can understand many everyday things like “nappy change”, “bath time”, “bed time”, “pull your pants up” – lol.

She’s slowly learning the alphabet and numbers. She can recognise and say “A” (and sometimes will say “B” afterwards) and can say “2″ when you say “1″ but that’s about it. Still pretty good for a 17-month old.

Snuggly robe

Abby is growing up so fast. She’s becoming a real little girl. She loves to pretend to put on moisturiser, nail polish and lipstick, but still won’t keep her hair in pigtails or wear any hair accessories. It’s a shame because she looks so pretty with her hair done – oh well, we’ll have to settle for the 60s mop look instead – much more practical for a busy little monkey!

My little girl

Tags: baby, parenting, toddler

Abby Update at 16.5 Months

Abby is Little Miss Chatterbox at the moment. She won’t stop babbling. Most of the time it’s just words that she knows and wants to randomly announce them. She also babbles nonsense but does it as if she’s speaking whole sentences. She’s getting better at communicating now and can ask for things like food, or even tell us she’s done “poo” although sometimes it’s a false alarm. She’s beginning to string words together now – her best is “Mummy, sit here”. It’s so cute!

She got tired of pushing her trolley

Abby can understand when we say “nappy change”. She will go and lay down her change mat and get a nappy (or four) ready for us, but then she’ll run away and delay the change for as long as possible. She also understands that when it’s time for dad to brush her teeth at night, then it’s time to say goodnight to mummy and she’ll come and give me a kiss and a goodbye wave.

She loves to share food now and will offer mummy or daddy some of what she’s having. Sometimes she just teases and takes it back though! If I give her a cracker, she says “Mummy!”, expecting me to have one too.

Abby loves her baths

We can ask her to do things for us like put her bottle on the table, take something to mummy or daddy, pick something up off the floor, and put something back where she found it. Her latest trick is asking for a tissue so she wipe her mouth and hands with, or the couch/table if she’s spilt something. She even drips milk on purpose so she can have something to wipe! Maybe she’ll be a great help when her brother arrives (about a week to go!!). Most likely she’ll just poke him and try and feed him dogfood.

Wondering if her Mr Potatohead limbs are cooked yet