My children are each experiencing their own sort of word explosions. Things are just clicking for each of them. I am both extremely excited and a little sad.
Gone are the days that Ellie called her sister Reera. Now she calls her Ora which is much closer to Nora than Reera. I will miss Reera something fierce.
Ellie now uses sentences so much more efficiently. “Boo-boo” has turned into “Mom, I got the boo-boo” (which makes me laugh every time she says it). She also tells us stories now. I particularly love the stories that involve her cowboy. “My cowboy is riding the horse, Yee-Haw!”. Her cowboy turns up every now and then and he always has a horse and yells Yee-Haw. I love that her imagination is running wild. I want her to keep that with her as long as possible. I miss that magic in my own life.
Nora is also speaking more. She now asks “What’s That” though it sounds more like “SSSat?”. She also yells at our dog Rusty just as well as her older sister. Poor Rusty, he deals with their verbal abuse with such grace. They love him and he loves them. Nora uses bigger words than most kids her age. I think this can be attributed to having a big sister. She can say SpongeBob, Nutcracker, Princess, etc. The list goes on and on for days. She is also trying hard to tell us things. She will have a conversation with us even though we have no clue what it is that she is saying. I love this stage of development. She is really working hard to fit the puzzle pieces together, and doing a marvelous job of it too!
No more snuggly baby time either. She is starting to realize it is more comfortable to lie in the bed than have mom or dad rock her to sleep anymore. One day soon, I will look up and find a child, not a baby looking back at me. It is a moment I am dreading more than anything else. But, unfortunately babies do grow and soon become children who then become teenagers and then adults. I have known this all along, but that doesn’t mean I have to like it.
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