Since our vacation, Cassidy has started putting words and signs together to make short sentences. This started on vacation when while taking a break from biking to walk through the grocery store, I told Cassidy with words and signs that we were going to shop and then do "more biking".
She looked at me with an inquiring look, and signed and said "more biking".
I said yes and signed and said "more biking".
As I pushed the cart through the store, she continued to babble to herself and sign "more biking." As we biked home, she continued this, so I put together a few more sign combinations that she knows and used them in sentences.
I could practically see the wheels in her little head turning.
I didn't think too much about it until over the past week when suddenly she started saying "Buh-bye Mama." "Buh-bye Saaahhky (Sake)". "Buh-bye Da-ter (Baxter)". "Mama ghee (paint)". "Ni-Ni (night night) Dada." "Hi Mama".
She's been saying "I love you" whenever we say it to her, but this morning she hugged Bilbo goodbye and said "Buh-bye Bilbo. Wuv ooo."
At dinner tonight, Cassidy looked at my painting hanging on the kitchen wall. She babbled on a bit while rolling her eyes back and forth like she was trying to coax the words out of her head, and I caught "mama paint" among the babble. (She doesn't really say paint ... its more of a strange gutteral sound like ghhheee, but I know what it means.)
Watching this stage of development is so amazing! I'm going to strategically place my camera within easy reach to try to catch a "buh-bye Mama" tomorrow morning as she leaves for school!
Very cool! She is on her way to being a "little person".
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