Amidst all the heckery going on around here, I am excited about Eleanor's new words. Yesterday I picked up a book and said "Book" and she repeated, "ook", and this morning I read to her again and she said "ook" without me prompting the word. She also says, "at" for "that". And she regularly says "up" when she wants someone to pick her up.
So, at 11 months, we got:
Mama, dada, ki-ki (kitty), up, at (that), ook (book), and uh-oh (her first "real" word).
I know for sure she understands:
Food, milk, no, bye bye, Henry, and her name of course.
I guess I'm surprised by what all she knows because I have made zero effort to teach her anything. The two times I have were when I told her "book" and when she started pointing to things and I said, "That" and then she said it. I suppose if I stayed at home full time with her like I did with Henry, she would be saying much more, but this is pretty cool.
The other thing about E is she has the opposite of autism. She is constantly trying to socially engage others. She loves to play little games with us and always makes eye contact and loves to laugh and smile. She displayed coyness the other day when I took her to work and she was being admired by the secretaries and she gave a smile but buried her face in my chest while peeking out. I'd never seen her do that. It was cute. At night when I rock her before placing her in the crib, she stares up at me. I put my face really close to hers and make a silly sound and she laughs laughs and wants me to keep doing it. She has a little boyfriend at school named Daniel. The sleep in a row on mats on the floor and Daniel and E always nap next to each other and D likes to pat E. They eat their meals together and crawl around together. They are the oldest of the babies, so they go way back.
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