The Power of Words

I am constantly amazed at how quickly Matilda learns. It seems like each and every day she is learning new sounds and words, or movements or something. Right now she is a little mimic, copying our expressions and words. Out of the blue she'll repeat something hard that you say. Words that she says and knows the meanings of: hello, bye bye, mama, dada, mum (this is what she calls her dummy or pacifier--it took us a while to figure out this is what she was talking about, at first we thought she was walking around looking for me, but then soon realized it was her dummy which I call "dum" a lot), outside, up, down, water (though she does call most liquids this except for milk), flower, turtle, doll, I'm sure there are more but my mind is running a bit blank, it is late you know ;). Her favorite word right now is "outside" mainly because that is her absolute favorite thing to do right now. She loves walking over to the backdoor and pointing outside and asking to go out there, then practicing going in and out. She has so much fun doing it.

She also knows most of the animal sounds: chicken (this was her first, it did help that we had chickens at the time), dog, cat, horse, cow, monkey, sometimes frog and bee. My personal favorite that she does is the monkey which her dad taught her, it is SO cute. She loves books too, and loves to be read too, and she loves to point out all the things she knows and says them. She has gotten really good to at once you go over things on a page you can ask her where they are and she points them back out. Is she a smarty or what ;)