Maeve has entered some bizarre linguistic phase which requires her to talk total nonsense about fifty percent of the time. It used to be I understood nearly every word that came out of her mouth, but that is no longer the case.
She stands around repeating nonsense phrases at me, with a look that conveys her total disgust at my thick-headedness. Missamee Baccabee, she insists, Baccabee. And then she giggles when I repeat it, like I fell into her clever trap. And she has nonsense words that seem to accompany particular actions, like a Dappa dappa sound she makes when she's busy, or a Fiss Fiss she says when she wants us to do something different.
My more experienced mom friends claim that this phase is ushering in an era of better communication: real sentences, more words, clearer speaking. I have high hopes that this is the case; she already sometimes strings words together (More waffles, Mommy!) in ways that amaze me. It's still hard to imagine her achieving better communication that just repeating the word for what she wants, but she is always beating out my imagination!
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Hehe, Sammy has these strings of nonsense phrases that he's been saying for months now--I know that they mean something to him, but for the life of me I can't figure out their translation! If you figure out how to crack the code, let me know! :D
ReplyDeleteOkay, I shall be the bearer of great news! After a few years of speech therapy with my son, it is actually great that you repeat it back. I can't remember why, but trust me. So repeat the rubbish back and try to then ease in the proper way to say the word, you don't want to keep calling waffles, whatever Maeve's mumbo jumbo word is. And I think I may still actually speak a rare dialect of mumbo jumbo.
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