Aylin has reached that long-hoped-for developmental milestone at which she can say, "Yes?" or "Yeah?", to questions she wishes to answer in the affirmative. So she'll come up and ask us for a pickle, and we'll say, "Do you want a pickle?"
[nods head emphatically] "Yeah?"
We're pretty tickled.
I (Jeff) went outside with Aylin this afternoon (which makes me wonder, at what point does "unseasonably warm" become the new norm?). As she was toddling off to the edge of the yard, I was just sort of moseying along behind her. She stopped, turned around and jabbered something at me that I interpreted to mean, "Will ya hurry up already?"
So I said, "I'm coming!"
To which she replied, "I cummeem!"
For the most part, she's been learning to identify objects (though this weekend's marked a move into some different stuff, including the "I cummeem!"), and she remembers them later. Anyway, "I cummeem!" has been today's phrase of the day. It's stinkin' cute. I love seeing how hungry she is to learn, how quickly she learns and how sticky these new things are.
Yesterday's phrase of the day was, "I d'no! [I don't know]!" That came about after she dragged me into her room — "clay [play]?" — sat us down in the floor, and kind of flopped her hands on her lap. I said, "Whatcha doin'?"
"Doin'?", she repeats.
"I don't know!", I say.
"I d'no!". Repeat ad infinitum all day long — and not a few times today — with lots of variations in tone and inflection, shrugs and hand gestures, to boot.
Pretty amazing stuff. It also serves as a constant reminder to be careful of what I say and what she might hear. That's good for me.