She seriously couldn’t be any cuter – my little Sassy girl.?? Since Jodi had to protect her site, you missed out on the fact that Karsyn has renamed herself Ariel.?? All the kids at her preschool are calling her Ariel now including her teacher (because Karsyn made a very convincing case that her Dad had formally agreed to legally changing her name).?? Jodi said that the kids looked at her like stranger danger when she called little Miss Ariel “Karsyn”.?? :)?? I am resolutely refusing to cave.?? Little red headed mermaids are cute and all but no comparison to my beautiful blondie Karsyn.?? Trust me – she has far more personality than Ariel anyhow.?? 🙂
Tori Word List
At 18 months, my little munchkin is still quite behind with talking.?? I didn’t expect that either because she seems very advanced at most everything else she does.?? However, while I would rate her behind on speaking, I would rate her ahead on communicating.?? There is a difference.?? She gets her point across thus the need for words is small at this point.?? She waves her little hand and fingers like a rodeo queen – her directives are quite princessy.?? When she wants a drink refill she brings the sippy over and delicately waves her finger over the lid while raising her eyebrows at me.?? When she is finished eating, she hands me her plate.?? When she wants to eat, she climbs into her booster.?? When she wants to go, she drags me to the front door.?? When she wants to play she drags me to the bed with pink and white bag to play princess.?? Today I told her it was nap time and she brought me jammies.?? She takes directions amazingly well and will bring me or put away most anything I ask.?? She even looks for her own shoes and pacies.?? Quite a bit more help than her brothers actually.?? :)?? Her word list though is short.?? Off the top of my head here it is:
Whoa
Uh Oh
Thank You (Than U or Hmm Hmm with the correct intonation)
Hi
Baby
Bye
Mom, Mommy, Mama
Dad, Daddy
Beat Ah Buh – Peek a Boo
Bear (for her pacy)
Papa
Here
Bitta Bitta Bitta (no idea but she loves to say that)
Nah Ner (Tanner – she tried that once yesterday)
Ty (has said a couple times only)
Up
Hot
Ow
She used to say Na Na for No but I haven’t heard her say that in awhile because she just shakes her head for yes and no.?????? That is all I can think of for now.?? I looked up Ty’s word list and at 19 months CORRECTED he was up to 45 words.?? Good glory is he a little talker.
Tonight Tori was in the room with me but being suspiciously quiet.?? When I turned around, I saw that she had gotten her hands on my lip gloss and was liberally applying it all over her face and hair.?? Before I could say one word, she burst into hysterical tears.?? She knew I wasn’t going to let her keep it and she was DISTRAUGHT.?? Guess we have another makeup girl on our hands.
4 responses to “Baby’s First Words”
i love the burst into tears before you even spoke – SOOOO princess. 🙂
i suspect that with as many loving family members (brothers included) doting over her, she doesn’t NEED to speak much and thus hasn’t focused on THAT form of communication. the other forms are so easy being that they already work! seth was that way a bit and i had to challenge myself to not respond as often to his wordless demands. he did, of course, later show signs of speech issues and i wonder if that was mixed into the situation – that maybe he really didn’t want to say the words until he could say them well… but early on i think it was a great deal of my quick response to him because i knew what he meant before he used the words. little princess might have the whole world reading her mind while she sits in the lap of luxery. 🙂 hee hee… she’s a smart little sassy-pants!
i was going to say (in chandler bing intonation) “could karsyn BE any cuter? could she BE any more photogenic?” SUUUCH a gorgeous girl… i want to meet her and get to know HER sassy, adorable personality. i already like her SO well from what i’ve read. 🙂 i’m loving her pictures. oh – and i want her kitty.
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Gosh that is a beautiful litle girl in those pictures :). Her sassy look in the first picture is one of my favorties and then the first one of the kitty she has a concerened monthering look and then in the next all is well and she is smiling :).
How is it that we have another makeup girl on out hands?
Hi Doni! Thanks for stopping by my blog! Love your work! These shots with the kitten are priceless! 🙂 I also have twin boys about your daughter’s age and they aren’t saying a whole lot either. My daughter was a chatter box… so very different!
Oh I love them! She is too cute! I love the one where she’s looking down at the kitten.