Little sentences

Kate’s speech has shifted this past week, she has started using pronouns correctly and more complex sentence forms. She’s saying things like, “I want the blue cup,” “That’s my baby! This is yours, mama.” “I hear Ember! Go get her!” She’s speaking slower, you can tell she’s searching in her brain for the correct pronoun to use. The result is an utterly adorable emphasis on certain words.

Today was a conversation bonanza with her. So many funny and adorable things!

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She woke up from her nap (yes she took one today!) in a good mood. I could hear her chattering in her room, and singing, so I left her for a few minutes. When I went in to get her she was sitting on her bed in the corner with all her her various stuffed animals laying down in an array in front of her. “Shhh,” she said, “All the animals are sleeping!” I sat down with her and we sung them her bedtime song (Morningtown Ride). She she made me give each of the animals a kiss, also part of her bedtime routine. Then we tiptoed out of the room.

A minute later she says, “Rabbit crying!” We opened her bedroom door and she ran over to the bed to pick up the rabbit. “It okay,” she said while giving him a big squeezy hug. “It okay.”

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This afternoon we went to a ball field to watch Den play baseball. Kate has been showing interest in baseball, it’s one of her favorite things to do outside (she has a plastic bat and ball). We sat on the bench for a little bit and she kept pointing to Den and saying, “Daddy! Daddy! Hi!! Number five!” (He has the number 5 on his back.)

When he was up to bat she clapped and said “Yaayyy!!” every time he swung – even if he missed. He ran to first base and she clapped. He ran to second and she clapped. In a little bit he was able to run home and she clapped. As he jogged off the field toward us she ran toward him and said, “Yay daddy!!! I so proud of you!!”

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On the way home after dinner she rode in Den’s car with him – Ember was in my SUV with me. When we got home she immediately said, “Mama! Look, the moon!!! Look!!” And it was there above the house. Den said on the way home she could see the moon out the window and kept talking about it. “Daddy, the moon!! Where the moon go? There it is! The moon!!” Apparently she also said something along the lines of, “Kate tired. Moon means bedtime. Daddy tired, too.”

She indeed went to bed soon as we got home.