Having a toddler can be fun, frustrating, and amusing. My toddler, Ginny, has the ability to be all three at once sometimes. The most amusing and frustrating times with her are when she is trying to communicate with us. There are moments where I swear she is talking to us in sentences that we just can't understand. Every once and a while, she will throw in a word that we know, but it doesn't help with comprehension. All you can do is nod your head and agree with her. I just hope I'm not agreeing to letting her jump off the top of the couch.
Ginny's vocabulary seems to grow daily. She has surprised me with words that we haven't worked on. For example, a couple of days ago she started pointing to a shirt I was wearing and saying "green." The shirt was indeed green. I have mentioned colors to her regularly but this was the first indication that she was paying attention.
What really leaves me amazed is how quickly she is starting to learn new words. In the last week, not only did she show that she knows the word green, but also the words "baby", "more", "bowl", "Barney", and "quack".
Now, this isn't to say that she doesn't confuse things. If Ginny wants to get down from a place, she says "down." If she wants up, she says "down." We are working on the word "up" still.
Not perfect, but she is slowly making progress. If only she would remember the word "Mommy" like she knows "Daddy," then life would be excellent. :-)
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