Wavy has always had really good language. She is a very clear communicator with her words. She is my first child who will explain herself if she knows we’re not understanding her words. For example:
Wavy: That toy is soap!
Me: Its soap? What do you mean?
Wavy: No, soap! Yike… yike a knife is soap.
Me: Sharp!
She’s little, and doesn’t have every letter sound down pat, but she is still very clear and easy to understand. I am consistently SO impressed by her.
She has always called Laela “Yaya.” I think part of it came from us often calling her Lala, and her inability to pronounce the L sound. Even when she was mad at her sister, you could hear her angrily screech “Yaya!!!!” I loved it so much, hahaha!
Recently, she has been trying to actually pronounce Laela’s name. It started at “Yay-ya” but that was hard to muddle through, it seemed. Then, she graduated the Y sound altogether and made a hybrid letter somewhere between a G and some phlegm. It was pretty gurgly but it was a lot closer, and we all praised her up for it!
Today, she showed off to Auntie Cher by saying it perfectly for the first time ever!!!
Laela. Somehow, that name has never sounded quite so sweet š
Wavy is incredibly proud of herself, and now is something of a broken record, replaying Laela’s name over and over and over again. Laela! Laela!! Laelalaelalaelalaelalaela…..
I am SO impressed at how clearly she speaks, but man. She sounds SO much older now. I’m not ready.