mumblings

Ada loves to "talk". She is even getting better at pronouncing words in a way that resembles English words, which she is very proud of. Sometimes we will be sitting around playing and out of nowhere she will shout, "Yellow!" or "Lellow" as she says it. She has some favorite words that she practices all the time, and then she has words that she says perfectly the first time. One night as I was handing her a bag of apple Fruity Snapz for the ride home I said, "Ok, here are your apples." And she replied right back with, "Apples!" - clear as day.

When she isn't surprising us with new words or practicing old words, she is practicing her conversation cadence. She has been doing this for a long time, but now she uses hand motion and pauses for answers. I think she might think we understand her, because we respond in the appropriate places, but really, we don't. Usually this mumbling happens during the day, when she is awake, and is trying to tell us about her day; but the other night she started while she was in the middle of sleeping. We were in our room watching TV and we heard Ada's voice. Not unusual, only this time it was not a screaming screetching voice, it was her soft, gentle, conversation voice. She was going through her litany of words, practicing her conversations, and probably, telling us to "turn the damn TV down, someone is trying to sleep!"