Thumper has spoken her first words, and I do mean word
s, not word. She very clearly said "there you go" several times yesterday.
DeepSpice and I couldn't believe it, but we have heard it again a few times today and now we are sure. We are also sure that she is just parroting us when we say this to her (ie. she hasn't actually worked out how to put a sentence together!). She has learned the 'there you go' phrase whilst playing her current favourite game 'pass the toy', which involves:
- mum/dad passes a toy to Thumper and says 'there you go',
- Thumper passes the toy back and mum/dad says 'thank you',
- repeat steps 1 and 2 until Thumper gets bored, or your head explodes (whichever comes first).
The use of thank-you in this game also explains her other new utterance: "gang-oo" for thank you.
She has also been using sign language for several months now, after first signing 'mum' at about 7 months old. Her signed vocabulary now includes 'mum', 'dad', 'sleep', 'drink', 'more', 'hello/bye' and 'light'. Not bad for a kid who is not yet one year old.
However, when she wants something right away, she still just shrieks or cries. Sigh.
Xave is a bit deaf at the moment. Must get that checked out. But it is good to have a bunch of signs to fall back on. Good on you Thumper!
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