My Favorite Words
Alert readers (reader?) may have noticed that I haven’t posted about Anna’s vocabulary recently. She’s picked up a lot of words, and many she has improved. Her pronounciation of “ucky” is now much closer to “puppy”, with actual p’s and everything. But the reason I haven’t done it is because my daughter is wily. She will use a word for a day, or sometimes just once, and never utter it again. One day we were playing in her room when I accidentaly roused Alphabug. “Do-do-do-do. Hi, I’m Alphabug!” it announced. Anna was sitting near it and repeated “alphabug”. That’s pretty exciting, it’s a three syllable word. I couldn’t get her to perform the same feat for Leigha after the thousand times I prompted the eventually-annoying message.
Similarly, Leigha has told that Anna one day said “outside” clear as day, but hasn’t since. I’m trying to think of a particular word she might have picked up for a day, but I can’t think of one, it’s hard enough to remember the words she does use on a daily basis. One word that she uses which is completely adorable is “shoes.” She pronounces it a lot more like “shoosh” while lifting her little foot up and overtly suggesting you attach one to her extremity. She has a similar fondness for socks, and today Leigha tells me Anna became obsessed watching Leigha paint her own toes. She kept insisting and even kept rubbing the closed nail polish bottle on her own feet in hope of magical paint osmosis. Leigha did end up painting her toe nails, which I need to get need to capture for posterity.
Click through to see a video of Anna at the beach in Florida after the jump.
