There are pictures of Ellie's Mommy and Daddy at daycare and her teacher says that Ellie kept going up and pointing to her loved ones. Apparently after working on it all day, her teacher was able to get Ellie to say "Mama" while pointing to my picture. "Dada" was a different story, even though Ellie would point to him.
My response was something along the lines of "Seriously???" and we went home to practice. I kid you not, this is how it went:
Mommy: Ellie, can you say Mama?
Ellie: Mama.
Mommy: Ellie, can you say Dada?
Ellie: Dada.
Mommy: Ellie, can you say... (interrupted by a car driving by)
Ellie: Gar! (pointing to the car)
Mommy: (almost $#!++ing my pants) What did you say?
Ellie: Gar! (pointing to a parked car) Gar! (pointing to another parked car)
Mommy: (having time to recover from shock) Yeah, yeah, but can you say Mama again?
Ellie: Mama.
4 comments:
AWWWW!!! Your heart must have melted! Any more words since then?
Jen
For a couple days in a row she was really consistant with Mama and Car, but it's sort of trailed off a little since then.
However, she has said all sorts of words randomly, just when I am not ready to really listen so I'm never quite sure I heard it for real. Some examples of words I've heard in the last few days (spoken at the correct time so the words were chosen well):
- Mama (she actually called for me!)
- Dada (she pointed to Daddy's picture)
- Car (this one is the most consistant, aside from Bun Bun)
- Bun Bun (how could I forget?)
- Bye Bye (to the bath water as it went down the drain)
- Bye Bye (waving to people when we leave)
- Please (signing to ask for something)
- Thank you (signing after getting something)
- Blowing kisses (when she says bye to people she loves)
- Hi (to Grandma)
- Grpa (to Grandpa)
- Baba (to ball, balloon, bubbles, bye-bye, baby)
- Gaga (Doggie)
Wow. The floodgates have been opened.
Jen
Let's hope so!
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