Me Talk Pretty Someday

So last night during bath time, I was dumping water on Eliza's head, which she hates, of course. And after every dump, she would make the sign for sad and cry, and say, "Baby sad." At first I thought she meant like her baby doll or something, but she did again each time I poured water on her.

Good communication skills, albeit in the third person. But I'm also impressed that she's so in tune with her emotions! Instead of doing the sign for hurt, she did sad (which looks a lot like the hand gestures you would use during the song 'If you're sad and you know it, you can cry! Boo-hoo!).
Luckily, she cheered up quickly after the pouring and scrubbing was over and spent the rest of bathtime squealing, giggling, chattering to herself, and swimming tadpole-style with her hands supporting her and her legs trailing and kicking behind her. Very cute.

She also can now say Bubble Bath, which is really cute.

Her vocabulary has really taken off lately. However, what's hard is that lots of times she is trying to tell us things, and we have NO idea what she's talking about, which makes her REALLY frustrated. Like just a little while ago, she was saying something to me that sounded like "Ga-go?" and Steve was like, "You want a taco?" (joke) and I was like, "You want Totoro?" and she kept shaking her head. We still have no idea what she wanted. Good story, right?

Some words that Eliza has mastered (verbally not just signs), that we CAN understand, though, are:

Foods:
1.Food
2.Strawberry- "aberry"
3.Banana- "Nana"
4.Apple
5.Snack
6.Candy- "andy"
7.Cheese
8.Eat
9.Juice- "oose"
10.Soup- "Poop!"
11.Mac & Cheese- "Mopas cheese"
12.Cup
13.MEAT!
14.Hot dog- "Ot Og"
15.Cracker- (but she usually signs it)
16.Water- "Wawer"

Animals:
1.Animal- "amimal"
2.Cat or kitty
3.Dog
4.Mika- "Ika"
5.Beaver
6.Octupus
7.Vole
8.Fish
9.Duck
10.Frog
11.Bear
12.Monster (that's an animal, right?)
13.Pig
14.Horsie
15.Owl
16.Oh no! Bug!
17.Ant
18.Bird
(and the sounds that accompany them, except for things like beavers where we're not sure what they say...)

Body Parts:
1.Nose
2.Arm
3.Legs
4.Belly, belly button- "Utton"
5.Hands
6.Eyes
7.Neck
8.Hair
9.Head
10.Bum
11.Knee
12.Chin
13.Feet
14.Toes
15.Back
16. Smile
17. Teeth
18. Tongue

People/Family:
1.Baby
2.Eliza- "Iza"
3.Me, my- as in "MY momma" or "MY doggie"
4.Momma
5.Dadda
6.Oma (her favorite and first to master after M and D)
7.Grandpa- "andpa"
8.Grandma- "andma"
9.Robby- "Obby" (we have Robby's mission pic on our wall and she loves to point to it and say 10.Rob's name"
11.Kate
12.Boy
13.Girl
14.Man (but most kids are babies and most men and women are mommas and daddas. We're working on that)
15.Friends- "ends"

Miscellaneous:
1.Bubble bath
2.Car
3.Go
4.Play
5.Ball
6.Blanket
7.Bed- "Ed"
8.Oh Yeah!
9.Hello
10.Hey
11.Bye, Bye
12.How are you- on the phone
13.It's Ready! (usually referencing a meal)
14.Park
15.Where Are you?- "Errarr you?"
16.I don't know- "Io know"
17.Movie- "Oovie"
18.TV- "E-V"
19.One, Two
20.Owie
21.Hurt
22.Outside
23.Up, down
24.Book
25.Seat
26.Bowl
27.Basket
28.Moon
29.Ride- "Ide" piggy back rides
30.Look- "I looke" at the camera
31.Totorro
32.Bambi
33.Yucky
34.Backpack
35.Bag
36.Shoe
37.Shirt, pants, coat, hat, bib, dress, socks
38.Poop (the real kind, not soup)
39.Potty
40.Tree
41.grass
42.plant
43.dirt
44.Most letters of the alphabet if we say them first
45.Numbers 1-10, if prompted
46.Wee!
47.Hot, cold, Brr
48.Toy
49.Bow- Hair bow
50.Dance
51.Draw!
52.Sleep
53. Snoring sounds
54. Please, thank you
55. Sad
56.KISS
57. Love you!

So about 150 words!! Exciting.

She kinda speaks a form of Pig Latin because she leaves the initial consonants off of most of her words. Pig Latin's cool, right?

She's also doing a great job of combining these words into more phrases, which is very fun and HELPFUL!! Like "Play Cat?" or "Dog sleep?" or "Momma, eat cheese please?" or "Thank you, Dadda!"

I doubt anyone actually would read through all of these, but it's a fun chronicling of Eliza's steps since this is our online journal of sorts.

p.s. Who got the Dave Sedaris reference in the title?