First Word
I think F may have said her first word tonight. Even “Mama” and “Dada” have been a little questionable up until now. Sure, she says them, but I don’t have any confirmation that they mean me and B given when she says them, which would be randomly.
She looked up from her bedtime nursing and said “Guh.” Several times. I turned to B and said, “Is she trying to say ‘good’”? “I don’t know,” he replied, “but she’s certainly trying to say something.”
“Are you trying to say ‘good’, honey?” I asked. She said it again, nursed more, said it again. And, just as I was getting all sentimental that she had said her first contextual word, she got up and wandered off.
Does she think nursing is good? That my breasts are God? That she’d reached her goal? Does she want a goat? I know it was a word. What word is a little trickier.
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September 13th, 2007 21:57
Oh yes, we go through this with Becca too. And she gets so upset when we don’t know what she means or can’t understand what she’s trying to tell us. Congrats on the first word, whatever it means!
September 13th, 2007 22:23
So sweet! I vote you can count it as “good” b/c who doesn’t like boob juice? Well, which babies, not us. You know what I mean…
September 13th, 2007 22:32
How sweet! First words are amazing.
J says “gah”but as far as we can tell it means, “I am about to knock over this tower of blocks” because that’s the only context he uses it in.
Sarah says “dat” all the time, but we often don’t know what she means. And she gets more and more emphatic, “dat, dat, dat” while we start picking up things going, “you want this? this? this?” Today it turned out she wanted my cereal bowl. Go figure.
September 14th, 2007 00:34
I am going with the goat. F. strikes me as a goat-fancier. In the nicest possible way, of course.
September 14th, 2007 08:28
Well, my goodness, Stacie - it’s so simple. She was nursing, and saw God. So there you go.
September 14th, 2007 08:51
It’s so obvious. She wants a goat.
September 14th, 2007 09:19
I haven’t checked, but I doubt we are zoned for goats so I think she will have to be dissappointed in her quest for farm animals.
September 14th, 2007 09:56
How totally adorable. When I worked at a nursery, I wondered how moms knew what the heck those little ones were saying. Now I know that they didn’t always know
September 16th, 2007 19:07
How cute! Maybe she’s congratulating you for a job well done.