yosi talk

yoselin's vocabulary seems to really be picking up the last week.

her jabbering has been advancing, but until recently, very little of it was decipherable. i could be a little premature on some of these words b/c i'm not sure she's clearly defining them with their meaning, but she's definitely SAYing some of them: (in order of their appearance)

dada- this was her "sound" since we've brought her home

whas-at? = what's that?: uttered most often when pointing to object that she wishes to be named.

boo: only sometimes, if playing a one-on-one peek-a-boo game with me.

puppy: i've never heard this one, but my mom claims to have, more than once

mama/muhma: YAY, finally! tho, like i mentioned above, not sure how strongly she correlates this with me.

'top & gah=stop and go: discovered when she was "pushing" (with a little help) the stroller around the yard.

she puts together alot of sounds. sometimes they sound like a sentence (tho a meaningless one) and are quite expressive. this is always very entertaining, and i often amuse myself trying to repeat the gibberish back to her- more difficult than it sounds. she can really get her tongue rolling.

in addition to her verbalizations, she is also very fond of the scream- short bursts of high pitched noise. this is, obviously, really irritating and is something i've always said i'd never tolerate. but, correcting her can get exhausting. i have on occasion had to tap her mouth and say "no scream" more than a dozen times before she decided to "move on". more often than not, it's easier to just ignore it. in fact, i think i'll be taking this route for a little while to test it's effectiveness. if it gets too bad, we have a handy little plug to fall back on.

i feel i haven't done too well here in making any grand attempts to express how much we love yoselin, but i suppose that's just a given. true, parenting, especially with me working three days a week, has been a tricky and trying ball to add to the juggling act of our life, but even when we're exhausted and our patience has been tested and found lacking, still we would not go back. we are glad for what we have been given and hope that we may become better (more like Christ) by it, if not today, then tomorrow.