... Animal Sounds

Some exciting things were coming out of Emmy's mouth this week, besides indiscriminate food bits. When asked, "What sound does a kitty make?" Emmy started replying in a sweet, high-pitched voice, "mama!" which I know is her version of "meow." Whenever we meow, Emmy says "mama," and I'm not sure if there's any underlying message here about her opinion of our three kitties, or my mothering skills, but it's pretty cute regardless.

And while I'm pretty sure that Emmy said "ducky" two days ago, and Ryan's pretty sure that she said "banana" twice earlier in the week, it seems that Em's saving most of her verbiage for her time with babysitters. When I came home from work on Monday, our babysitter, Justice, said to me, "So, Emmy talks. She said 'mama,' 'dada,' 'fishies,' and when I asked if she wanted something, she said 'mmhmm, yes that.'" The thing is that in all of Emmy's amazing mumblings is a huge variety of sounds, so it's very easy to hear full phrases, which she may or may not actually be saying. We like to give her credit for saying, "Hey, look at that penguin underneath the window over there," but, you know...

Then! Then there was this... on Wednesday, while Emmy was over at Auntie Jennie's house, as she is every Wednesday morning, Emmy apparently said "tiss!" to Jennie, and when Jennie looked down, Emmy was looking up at Jennie with her lips puckered. When Jennie bent down and gave Emmy a kiss, Emmy giggled! Do you know what this means?! This means that Emmy really said "kiss"! How am I 100% positive about this, you ask? Well, Emmy always laughs when she gets what she wants. For example, when she points at Magic Blankie, and then you bring it to her, she laughs as if to say, "You understood my communication!" or maybe, "You fell for it, my mom slave!"

Does this all mean that we can say that Emmy's talking? Or, that Emmy talks for babysitters? Sure, let's give the girl a checkmark next to this milestone. Why not?