As I've mentioned before Charlotte took her time deciding to talk but now that she has she has a lot to say. I thought I'd report some of her/our favorite utterances.
Charlotte is quite the homebody. If we're gone from the house for very long, she'll start saying "I want to go home," eventually with "Now!" appended. Once we're on the way home and we tell her so, she'll say "It's taking a long time".
Sometimes we can't understand her and she gets very frustrated. When she says she wants to go to the playground, it sounds to both Carol and me like she's saying "ping pong." We don't get a very positive response when we try to confirm, "you want to play ping pong?"
Tonight when I got home from work Carol was busy making dinner and Charlotte was trying to tell Carol something about her doll. I asked Charlotte if she could tell me about her doll. She sort of scowled at me, wagged her finger and said quite clearly, "I'm not talking to you Daddy, I'm talking to Mommy." Alright then.
Unrelated to Charlotte's speech but fun nonetheless: tonight Carol had a preschool meeting so I did the bedtime ritual for both girls (usually Carol and I trade off girls each night). After their bath they were eating bananas and a danceable Macy Gray song came on and both girls started moving to it. I started dancing for them, and soon we had a conga line going around the kitchen island with them following me. I'd wiggle my butt or do funny dancing walks and they would imitate me and giggle hysterically. We had to play the song twice we were having so much fun. That's the kind of moment I try to burn into my memory.
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