Miriam is at that grand age when she can communicate so much with so few sounds at her disposal (she is, after all, not even 20 months old). Here are some current family favorites:
- Whenever she sees Mickey Mouse--on her diapers, on the TV, on a book--she makes her piggy noise. Yes, my child mistakes a rodent for a porker.
- Her "I'm finished" signal when she's eating meals is "Ah mama," meaning "All done please, Mama." A while ago when I was out and Seth was on meal duty, he asked Miri if she was all done. Her response: "Ah mama ... dada."
- Miriam is wild about pumpkins. For the entire month of October and carrying on to November, she gets über excited every time she sees one of the gourds and exclaims, "Wah-co! Wah-co!" She even mistook Buddy's doghouse (Buddy is Grandpa Dennis' golden lab) for a jack-o-lantern. (Because it was dark outside and Buddy's orange heat lamp was on inside the doghouse.)
- Lately Miri gets very upset when she's missing someone in the family. After dropping Ana off at preschool yesterday, we drove home and unloaded from the van. As I shut the door to the garage, Miri realized that she was minus a sister and shouted,"ANAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"
- Miriam calls her pacifier a "baba" because that's what we've called such cry-halting devices since Bekah coined the term in her babyhood. But Miri has added a new term to our lovey vocabulary: "uh-oh." That's how she refers to her blanky.
Yes, folks ... she IS a doll.
Yes, folks ... she IS a doll.