Tuesday, October 04, 2005
Good
This is Sadie’s first clear word that ends in a consonant. She has said “daddy,” but usually she says da da da and ma ma ma. She has from time to time perfectly mimicked a word, but only on a one time basis.
Yesterday, after I told her she was a “good girl,” she started going around saying goo (pronounced to rhyme with good more than with moo) repeatedly.
Today she mastered the full word “good” and is quite pleased with herself.
All the more reason to be sure she’ll bust out with understandable English any time now. Not that she has any trouble making herself understood now. She knows so many words, even though she can’t say them, she can act on or react to what we say, which can tell us what she wants. For instance, she knows the word “pineapple.” Her response to our discussion of whether to cut the pineapple sitting on the counter, making the whole kitchen smell pleasant, was to make a beeline for her high chair, then come back to the living room like “well, hurry up,” and go back to the chair and shake it.
So she got a mound of fresh pineapple, and I cut the rest up for today or tomorrow. Sadly, it had some damage that looked like parts had frozen in cold storage, so I discarded more than I’d have preferred. However, then good parts were fantastic.
Mmmm… good.
On another note, Deb reports that Sadie has just learned how to put the Mega Blocks together, and is happily stacking them. For her birthday she got a 50 piece wagon full of them, which she was crazy about even before she caught on to building with them. She also got a doll from my father and stepmother, and is crazy about her “baby.”