Dear Lili,
I like to watch your face when I swing you at the park. You often sit there quietly swinging back and forth looking around but every once in a while your eyebrows raise when you hear something that I imagine is familiar to you in some way and sometimes you ‘talk’ back afterwards. Around you there are Moms and Dads and Babysitters saying things like:
PEEK-A-BOO!
WEEEEEEEEEEE!
A…B…C…D…E…F…G…
I can’t imagine what this experience is like for a baby. Living in your tiny baby world not able to verbally communicate yet but starting to hear familiar sounds and words. I imagine it’s not unlike being in a foreign country with a language you don’t speak. Only grabbing the occasional word like, “blah blah blah New York blah blah blah blah”.
I am so curious what your first word/words will be. Mine were ‘bad dog’ (I’m not kidding) and your father’s was ‘button’.
Kind of sums up your parents somehow now doesn’t it?
xo
“Bad dog!” Heehee. Mine were apparently “Not! Eating! That!”
Lili is evidently a very very smart little baby, so she will probably break out in a monologue that will stun you!
I think you’re so right with what it must be like to be a baby with all those words swimming around waiting to be caught.
xx
I imagine it’s like that adult voice in The Peanuts, and like you say, some of it comes through. Except in my case I think it’s like I say, “Don’t eat the cat food!” And Ollie hears “Whah whah whah whah CAT FOOD!”