I love Natalie's current stage of speech development. She repeats everything she hears (especially if Liam says it), and makes up a few things on her own. I think she has a good vocabulary, and speaks pretty clearly most of the time. Here are a few of the things that may not be quite "right" but never fail to make me smile.
"Faffles" - as in, the frozen toaster waffle variety, sometimes preferred with "dip" (syrup), sometimes just with butter. Her favorite breakfast.
"Gwand" = as in, where is my princess Gwand? I want to make Daddy stop talking. (When Natalie waves her princess wand at him, Jim does a hilarious act where he stops or starts talking in mid-sentence whenever she waves it. She could turn him "on and off" for hours if he let her.)
"Snail" = this is what she calls any sort of hangnail or fingernail that needs to be clipped. She will examine her toes while in her car seat (she always must take off her shoes in the car for some reason) and yell "Mommy! I have a snail!!"
"Skee-jee" - she had a cold for about 2 weeks and she had a love/hate relationship with the little nose syringe thing that can suck mucus out of a baby's nose. We called the process squeegeeing her nose. Before bed if she was too runny Natalie would ask for the "Skee-jee", but after being suctioned about 2 times she couldn't take it anymore and would say NO MORE skeejee!
"Fee-fies" - This is her word for butterfly. Not sure why it comes out fee-fie (almost like fee-fi-fo-fum), but it is very cute.
"Russia-baby" - this one actually comes out pretty clearly. It makes me smile because she will, more and more, identify all of the "baby" toys and will bring them to me and say "Russia baby's toy?" I tried telling her that her pacifiers were also Russia baby's, but quickly realized the error of my ways when I saw the look on her face. I don't need to plant that kind of hostility before the baby even arrives.
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