It wasn't until after we went on vacation and returned that we realized that so much of the "babble" Marissa has been saying has words in it. She has such unusual intonation and speech that it was difficult to hear the words in there, plus we only really see them for 2 hours every evening between arriving home and bedtime. It wasn't until Wayne's sister Kathy and his mom Millie spent time with the girls (LOTS of time) that they informed us that Marissa has plenty more words she says then we were giving her credit for.
Now that we're listening better and hearing them, we're encouraging more use and repetition, so her speech is really starting to take off, as is her comprehension.
Saturday morning we were awoken by her babbling in her room. She gave a couple of little coo's, then the subsequent "Uh-oh....uh-oh....uh-oh...." I went in to her room to find her sitting on her head, pointing to her butt and saying, "Poop."
Yep, sure enough, she had a dirty diaper.
On Sunday afternoon she was playing downstairs when she went off and was quiet for a while, then began pointing at her butt and saying, "Poop. Poop." Once again, a poopy one.
Prior to this we thought she was just saying "Boop" or some other nonsense language. Now that she's got the actions to go with it, we finally associate the word with the action. It's not that we train our children, our children train us!
Even if she never tells us "Milk" or "More" or "No," I'm just happy she tells us "POOP!"
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