In the first of what will prove to be many such events, I'll be a mouthpiece for Jen by posting about some event that went down during the workaday hours. So this story is technically hers.
We've managed to teach the girls (almost without trying) to say, "Aaaaahh!" whenever they finish a big pull off the sippy cup. "*glub blub slurp slorp....aaaahhhhh!" They can do it pretty much on command now, as well as some times when we don't command it at all. (I like the thought of us commanding the kids; it's a funny, futile choice of words, since they seem to have no proclivity for being commanded.)
This morning during the day's normal milk break, Abby decided to start aah-ing. So she took a big drink, yanked the cup out of her mouth, and let out a bellowing, "Ahhh." Normally, we do this back to her or Lily does it or there is some sort of response that justifies her theatrics. She looked at Lily, who looked back at her but continued her slurping. Abby was not deterred. The cup went back up, another drink was drunk, and she let slip another "Aaaaahh!" Looked at Lily: nothing.
That she kept looking to her bigger little sister for a response to her call would have been cute enough. What made it even more fantastic was that she then reached over and tried to pull the sippy cup out of Lily's mouth, hoping to wrangle an 'Aahh' from her no matter what.
This stuff impresses me.
In other news....:
The girls are starting to get vocal. The words are starting to come from both of them. Lily's a bit ahead (it's not a race), and now has a fairly solid grasp of the following words and their meanings:
ahmi - a made up word that means pacifier
ball
mommy
daddy
papa
more
apple
nana (banana)
Abby (kinda)
hi
bye
Abby can do a lot of the same, only will do mama and dada instead of mommy and daddy. She almost had apple tonight. She's getting pretty good at papa. And a few others, I know I'm forgetting some for both of them and Jen may chide me later for selling them short.
Day one hundred and forty four.
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