Clio seems to be in that phase my aunt Molly calls the "explosion of language." She mimics everything we say, and while I sometimes think she's not retaining some of her older words, she'll pull them out when we least expect it.
All weekend, she's been saying "Dadoo," and we kept thinking that maybe she was saying Daddy; but tonight she said it after I gave in and gave her some "pizza," (she did say "please"), and I figured out she's saying "thank you." Dave said, "where did she learn that?" Funny, we can't take credit; it's the influence of the lovely ladies of Knock Knock day care.
So, the New Words list includes (but is not limited to):
thank you
pizza
please
yellow
green
blue
bird (the word and the sign)
outside
stroller
hi
bye bye
be-bo ("you may not know what be-bo means, or maybe you've forgotten: it's just the tiny hippo way of saying belly button")
boon (balloon)
Titi (like "aunt" in Spanish)
bee (and "buzz" is "bee bee bee bee")
butterfly
strawberry
shoes
spoon
hiss
tree
animal (my personal favorite)...
...and "mine."
She learned this on the playground yesterday, from a little girl, about her same age, named Stella. Stella got to the top of the slide and declared it "Mine!" or showed off her bucket and ball and told the other kids, "mine!" Clio picked this up very quickly, and did battle with her new friend Lydia over a toy stoller: each grabbed one handle and took turns saying- you got it- "Mine!"
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