Language development....

We feel like Molly's vocabulary is really starting to explode lately. Sure most of it is only understandable by Jeremy and me, but still, it's fun to watch Molly learn how to tell us about her world! Her list of words include: dada, mama, bird, dog, Neko, ball, milk, more and a handful of others I can't think of. Not sure if they count as words, but she definitely knows what a lot of animals say..."mooo", "meow", "woof", "blub, blub" (for a fish), "neigh", "baa baa", "quack", and "clackity-clack", which sounds nothing like clackity-clack but it's her sound for a train as described in her Tomas book.

Here's a little clip of Molly's "neigh" when we we turned the Olympics on to find the horse jumping competition going on. Yes, we recognize that she's standing way too close to the TV & we are working on that. However, Molly actually barely watches any TV & if it's on, she has very little interest in it.

Her signs are expanding too... new to the repertoire are "help" and "diaper change". It was pretty amazing how quickly she picked up "diaper change" once they started using it at her new daycare. She'll show us the sign if we say diaper change or refer to anything about bodily functions (i.e. She showed me the sign when I told her I was going upstairs to go "potty"). We're curious to see whether she eventually shows us the sign when she actually needs a diaper change, i.e. has a wet diaper or a BM. Apparently signing diaper change with kids helps when it comes to potty training, but we'll see!

Probably the cutest part of Molly's growing language is her expression and hand gesture when she's curious or confused about something. Below is a picture of Molly asking me where our friend Kris went who had stayed with us overnight last week... Molly definitely seems to remain true to be a super curious and observant child!