Emma has become quite the imitator. When it comes to learning words, that's a good thing, and she's picking up more than ever. Her vocabulary is still limited, and sometimes you just have to be one of the family to understand what she's trying to say. (And sometimes, we don't even get it, either!)
Here are some examples of EmmaSpeak:
"Deese" is Please. That's combined with a rub on her chest, which is sign language for please. "Moke" is milk. "EEEE" with her finger pointing at her mouth means eat. Hot dog is "Hot Dog". Can you tell her favorite food?
As for people, "Daw-see" is Darcie, who is probably her favorite person these days. She tries really hard to say Alyssa, but three syllables is a bit beyond her. So Alyssa comes out as, "aLLLLee" Darcie has been teaching her to say Brandon, who she recognizes in photos, and she calls him "Banda". Apparently Cameron isn't very easy to say either, so Emma calls him, "Ham."
"Mom" is Mom, and "Da-eee" is Daddy.
She has her favorite things. I confess she does watch Barney videos. As in VHS cassettes. We're lucky we still have a machine or two to play them on. When she wants to watch, she asks for "Bawww." Which is actually quite close to her word for ball: "baw." Recently she's also taken to the one Raffi video we have, who she calls "Faffi".
So, wanting to practice photography some more, I took these pictures of her at the softball tournament. I love the idea of Darcie and Emma snoozing together on the blanket:
Except, the real story behind it is that, being the Emma-tator, she saw Darcie laying down "sleeping" on the blanket, and had to copy. And Darcie couldn't hold a straight face:
I was using the take-the-photo-with-the-subject-in-the-shade method, which worked pretty well, but I was still using the automatic camera settings. I love the pictures with Em & the sunglasses:
That last one shows her doing the "beautiful" move that the girls taught her: stroking the right cheek with a look over the shoulder. What a little flirt!!
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