Amalia is growing. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to work that one out. She's eating with a massive appetite. She runs all over the house, neighborhood, city. Her bigger lung capacity is obvious. :-) Oh, and she's starting to say stuff. It started with "this" a while back, then moved on to "no", where is sort of got stuck in second gear for a while, until about a week or two ago, when the linguistic floodgates opened and now them words are coming out faster than we can jot them down. Here's an 'off the top of our head' list of what she can say so far:
- This
- No
- Lala (Tia, TTmouz and Avi's cat)
- Coco (the other cat, whose name is Paco)
- Barney
- Mouz (short for TTmouz)
- Nini (short for Irini)
- Ka (short for Rebecca)
- Sco' (short for Scott)
- Ra (short for Ralph)
- Go (with conviction)
- Mine (with even more conviction)
- Nana (short for banana, of course)
- Boo (short for book)
- Woof
- Baa
- More
- Mas (Spanish for "more")
- Pipi
- Mama (either for mama or for any other adult in the house, in a picture, etc.)
- Uh Oh
- Yeay! (arms raised in the air included!)
- Close
Each day there's another one, and sometimes the stick and others they are forgotten and replaced by other words. More to follow, no doubt.
The development of language has resulted in Laurence's longing for Amalia to stay just the way she is. He loves her right now. She's small enough, fun enough, animated enough, and babbled for minutes on end, with the addition of flailing arms and intonations to make a point. Laurence sits there - sometimes in person and sometimes on the phone - not wanting to hang up or listen the end. From here on things become more understood, though she doesn't seem to have any communication problems at all at the moment. Between pulling out fingers to get us to move where she wants us to, then pointing to what she wants and adding a couple high pitched sounds for effect, she gets her point across just fine. :-)
Take a look at a recent video of her:
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