"How many words does she know?" asked a friend. "Mine knows four."His daughter is a few months younger than Anna. I guess I should feel competitive in these situations, but I can't. I am not sure how many words Anna knows, or that I can pass off as her "vocabulary" in the presence of others.
At this point, she is capable of saying the word "emme" (mommy) when she really desires her mother. At times in the past, she would say the word "õde" (sister). "Sister" is a hard word to say, so I have watered it down to "sissy," but still, no "sissy" from the lips of Anna.
Anna knows the word for "nose" -- "nina" -- and can point to my nose when Epp asks her where it is. She is also familiar with all the funny body parts. Last night, as I lay in bed, she lifted up my shirt and stuck her finger in my bellybutton.
Haunting all situations is the mysterious "adn." We have thought for sometime that "adn" is Anna's way of saying "Justin" -- sort of like j U s T i N -- if you will. But I am told that she says it when I am not around. It's a multipurpose word. When I was a child, I called my father -- John -- "Nin."
Anna, though, is quite communicative. She talks a lot, and when she does talk, she sounds a bit like Porky Pig -- lots of "lada lada lada lada" and "oodle oodle oodle oodle." Those are words too, right?
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...by next year we will be asking her (like her sister) to please stop interupting us.
Everyone is different every child learns differently.
Marta was always a chatter box...but she was here in New York most of her "youth"..
and New Yorkers like to talk : )
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