Speaking Words

Maddy has been using limited sign language to communicate for months.  She has started to speak words more over the last couple months.  She has been saying "bubble" all summer.  It's one of the few words she says regularly at speech therapy.  She likes to blow bubbles that much.  Actually, she has been clamming up less in front of her speech therapists.  They're really happy with her chattiness.


Since she says "buh-buh" for "bubble" and "buh" for book, it got difficult figuring out what she wanted.  Until she figured out the sign for "book."  Here she's pointing to the bookshelf.  I don't know where her sudden interest in books came from.  Just glad she finally likes them.


Her favorite TV show, which almost nobody has ever heard of, is "Oobi."  She used to ask for it by saying "beh," then "bee," and now she can say the "oo" at the beginning.  And now she asks for Oobi ALL THE TIME.

Can you tell what her new favorite word is?  Here she had just asked for Daddy, and when I told her he was upstairs she turned around to climb the stairs and go find him.  Yep, she's Daddy's girl.