March 1, 2007 - Words to live by.

Allison is now just over 19 months old. When you get to kids of this age it seems like the question everyone wants to know is "are they talking yet?" Well, Allison talks remarkably well for a child her age, at least so I have heard. There is no possible way for me to list everything she says but I thought I would try to keep track of what she said for half a day, and it didn't work---I lost count. She will repeat anything that we ask her to say, including memory verses after dinner.

Here is some of what she says on a regular basis:
Names: Mama, Papa, brother, sister, Nicholas, 'yell' (this is as close as she gets to saying Gabrielle), Allson(she doesn't quite get the middle syllable in ther yet), Sam (& where Sam?) Gamma, Gampa, Toni (for some reason she must have picked this up sometime when they were staying at my mom's house when Sam was born, she doesn't seem to have any idea that it is my name, but whenever she is pretending to talk on the phone she always says Toni and she says it perfectly), Onen (Owen), Ja-wa (Joshua)

Favorite Things: blankie, pipey (her word for pacifier), baby, Care Bear, 'Queen (for Lighting McQueen), Huson (for Doc Hudson),

Foods: juice, milke, water, 'tart (pop-tart), some, 'tatoes, dip, sauce, 'nack (for fruit snacks)

Here's a short clip of mama prompting her on some of words for the camera, for memories sake.

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