Talking Tot

Just found out today that our insurance is going to cover speech therapy next year.  WaHOO!  It doesn’t this year, at least I don’t think it did (maybe it was last year?) when I looked, so I was starting to get a little nervous now that we’re looking at aging out of EI.  There isn’t even a maximum number of visits that they’ll cover! Praise God for group health insurance!!! I think that speech is definitely the place Piper’s going to need some extra help, at least for a while, and I’m going to go out on a limb and assume that the speech provided in preschool isn’t going to be enough for her. 

Anyway, Piper’s had a few very funny VOCAL sentences lately.  She’s been talking in paragraphs a lot- adding words to her signs or adding signs to her words, depending on her mood.  It’s SO STINKING AWESOME how much she’s started talking lately!  I can’t even begin to describe the level of excitement when something new pops out of those little lips. 

So, just for fun, the vocal stylings of my two year old:

• I be back (apparently we have a Schwarzenegger prodigy- lovely…)
• Ow-sie (outside)
• I so pretty!
• I’m so big!
• Piper:  Where’s Addy?  (me:  She’s already IN her car seat- see?)  Piper:  She’s being quiet- she sleeping?  (me: No, she’s not sleeping- she’s just being good.)  Piper:  …laughing hysterically… <<Does this tell you how often Addy’s actually GOOD in the car???>>
• Tall Nana? (“call” Nana)
• Little xyz (little any-noun-she-feels-like)
• Biiiiii xyz (big any-noun-she-feels-like)   
• Wid xyz (with any-noun-she-feels-like)
• Wassa (What’s that?)
• Das a (that’s a…)
• Dis uh (this one)
• Osh osh osh (wash wash wash)
• Mom (yup, I’m MOM, not mama, or mommy- Mom.  It’s really quite cute)
• Mean mom
• I mad
• Bat (bath)
• Nana’s biii daw… (Nana’s big dog)
• booburies Psss?  (“Blueberries PLEASE???”  She’s very upset that blueberry season is over and she doesn’t quite catch the concept of WAY TOO EXPENSIVE…)