Monday, April 02, 2007

A quick Evie story

So my daughter has just started figuring out how to control the sounds coming out of her mouth. She's the proud owner of several words: Mama, Dada, Baby (her first!), Baa (ball), Up (usually said in a whiny tone) and, her favorite, No. She loves putting a "b" sound in front of many other words. Thus, "Grapes" becomes "Bapes," "Cups" becomes "Beps," etc. etc.

One of our friends gave Evie a musical toy for her birthday in February--Lulu the Word-Spinning Spider. Lulu's pretty cool--she'll play a guessing game with her charges where your baby's tasked with trying to figure out what word she's spinning via a small light display on her tummy. Lulu will also walk you through each of the letters of the alphabet as you pat her tummy, or, in what's Evie's favorite move, she'll sing the entire alphabet song.

Evie loves music, and has begun singing along to some of her favorite lullabies. The other day, when we patted Lulu's tummy and she sang the alphabet song, Evie started to sing along. It went something like this: "Bee, bee, bee, bee, bee, bee, beeeee."

Basically every letter was a B--ya gotta love that.

1 comment:

Hack said...

Hey dude,

Long time no talk. My fault. Just dropping in to say hi. I should write something on my own blog. Irwin is getting mean.

One of my former step brothers, when he was really young and still learning to talk, would often try to mimic my language. One example that stands out is the beginning of this little note. When he said it, it came out like this:

Hey Dirt!