Sunday, January 11, 2009

The long awaited Ma-Ma!!!

Stella says Ma-Ma now! She said it for the first time on Dec 30th. She said it once during the day when John was at work and I wasn't 100% sure that she'd said it because I was cooking in the kitchen and not concentrating on her. Then that night when he came home from work she was on the couch playing with him and she said it loud and clear. At first she saved it for special occasions just as she did with Da-Da when she started saying that months ago. Now she says Ma-Ma pretty regularly and will chant it in a round of 3-5 at times. It's such an amazing thing that we get so excited over that and while she's saying the words, she doesn't really even know what she's saying and she's not addressing it to us. But it still means so much.

She has a lot of her consonants down already, B, C, D, H, L, M, N, P, R, S, T and V. At 8 months she makes all of those distinct sounds. I think she's going to be a chatter box when she's talking. She jabbers all the time now and will make one long jibber jabber like she's telling a total story. It's hilarious. She even has expressions when she does that and her tone of voice changes through out.

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