Jabber Jaw…

Over the past few weeks, Syd has just taken off with her speech! 

She has become quite expressive (well, she always has been, but not so much in words…more so with SCREAMING)….and now she will tell you whether she’s scared or shy or happy….

The other day, Grandma was going  watch her and i told her about it earlier in the day and she said…Gama, sigh…took me a while to figure it out, but she was saying she was going to be shy around grandma….such a little stinker….

Last night, we were in the basement and she spotted the giant rubbermaid box (which for reasons of sheer laziness, has not gotten stashed back in its proper place of storage) sitting out in the living room….she was very concerned about it and kept telling me she was scared of the Christmas tree in the box. Then she’d come up by me and bury her head in my shoulder…but she was more acting than anything, i wasn’t feeling like she was genuinely ‘scared’ – it was just so cute!

So, we went upstairs and she had to tell papa all about it and that she was scared because it was so big…she was so sweet and kept leaning into him to bury her head in his shoulder…and i had to run and get the video camera to try to catch it…so by the time i did record it, she was kind of over it….and we went a little overboard with our questioning to try to get her to say what she had been saying before (so disregard our madness)…but we managed to catch some cuteness and I just had to share…..

My favorite parts:

• when she covers her cheeks because she was ‘scared’
• when papa was asking her if the tree was ‘big’ and she started ‘signing’ the word ‘book’ – again we were a little overindulgent with the questioning and confused the poor little babe…
• the end when she runs down the hallway yelling ‘ah, tubber’