Taylor's Musings

I may have mentioned before that Taylor has gotten good at saying "no" but doesn't say "yes" much. Well. recently she has started saying "okay". Sometimes she will talk to herself and say something like this: "Listen to Praise Praise? Okay, listen to Praise Praise." Today I was getting her a snack. First she asked for cheese, so I gave her some string cheese. She asked for more cheese, so I asked her if she wanted fruit treats. After that she wanted more fruit treats. It was getting close to dinner time, so I didn't want her to eat too much. I asked her if she wanted Cheerios and she said "no", then I asked if she wanted gold fish and she said "okay" in the sweetest little voice.

We got Taylor a new Praise Baby DVD for our trip to Greensboro. She has already been learning the songs on it and have been singing along with the video. There is an arrangement of All Night, All Day and Jesus Loves Me on there. I had already been teaching Taylor Jesus Loves Me but she has already picked up on the other part too. She amazes me how quickly she learns. One of her favorite songs is Holy, Holy, Holy. She knows most of the words to the first verse and it is so cute to hear her reciting it. She can sing the whole first half of the first verse on her own without my help. She might miss a few words here and there, but she gets the gist of it.

Taylor has also learned to count to 10. Lately she likes to just say 8-9-10. One time I was trying to get her to count 1-2-3 and she said 8-9-10 instead.

Yesterday she said "why" for the first time. She likes to stick all her fingers in her mouth and sometimes comes close to gagging herself. I am not sure why she is still doing this. I don't know if she is still having reflux problems or if she just thinks it is fun. When I told her to take her fist out of her mouth she asked "why". It surprised me at first because she had never done that before.

A couple of weeks ago we were in Albany shopping and decided to take Taylor into the pet store to run around a little. There were some chihuaha puppies and she looked straight at them and exclaimed "pig!" We laughed so hard before we finally told her that they were puppies and not pigs.

Although Taylor's speech is getting clearer and clearer there are still times that I have a hard time understanding what she is saying. Every once in a while I will have a breakthrough and figure out what she is saying. It is fun to see her learning and growing though.