From the mouth of babes...

Since about 20 months old, Evie's vocab has just exploded, and becoming a new sister has coincided with new words and sentences. I want to record some to highlight what makes up a 2 year olds mind & life...

vomit was her first new word after Josie's birth, current favs are 'chocolate milkshake please?' to the cafe waitress, 'where are you koko, come here koko' to the neighbours cat who she then carries around the yard, 'cup of tea mummy? cup of tea ants? cup of tea koko? ' sadly we all get offered the same cup to drink from- argh..., & 'keep it on please' everytime we want her to get changed. Evie rarely says 'no' to a request, instead she says 'not yet mummy'... trying to keep me hopeful I guess.

We can now have nice little conversations over lunch too, and with the beautiful warm weather lately we have been eating on the verandah, so we can talk about the view quite well including, ' Where is Daddy's car- the nimbus" "Noisy birdies mum" "bats!" "where are the tomatoes?" " Throw it to the birdies?' and critiquing food "yummylicious" "lovely" "very tasty" and ofcourse "yuk". She tends to speak in sentences now and loves to lean new words, so it is very fun communicating! Last weeks new word was 'conjunctivitis'- which she has now passed on to Josie :(

We are delighted whenever Evie decides to say grace, it always includes 'Dear Jesus' and Amen, but the rest is spoken in mumbled whisper... neither Mike or I seem to have the gift of interpretation, but it brings joy all the same!