Look Who's Talking

I would love to report that Eden has started talking up a storm over the past few months since getting tubes in her ears, but unfortunately that is not the case. Although she babbles all of the time and thinks she is talking, most of what she says is still unintelligible. She has, over the past few weeks, picked up several new words and uses them all of the time. Here are the few words that she has mastered:

Go- used to tell Rocky to get away from her snack

No,no- also used to tell Rocky to get away from her snack!

Bye- used when she wants to do something she knows she is not supposed to do (She will look at Cory or me, wave, and say "bye" so that we will leave her alone and she can go about getting into mischief!)

Uh, oh

Cheese- used when she sees a camera

Boo- used when you walk into her room in the morning or after her nap

Hopefully more words (like mommy!) are just around the corner and she will be talking in complete sentences in no time.
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Parker's newest thing to ask is "How?".

Parker uses it the same way other kids use 'why', but Cory and I have quickly discovered that it is a lot harder to answer a 'how' question than a 'why' question. For example, "How is that truck in front of us?" is a lot harder to answer than "Why is that truck in front of us?". Or, "How did that bee sting me?" isn't as easy to answer as "Why did that bee sting me?"

I am hoping that this will be a short verbal phase and he will stop asking me "How?" about every. little. thing!

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A few new Parkerisms:

Parker has a knack for mixing up compound words. Here are just a few that he has come up with lately.

Casesuit= suitcase

achetummy=tummy ache

achehead=headache

broweye=eyebrow