Telafoammm

LS has been making incredible progress lately. It's just amazing to see what little sponges children are.

A few weeks ago LS said her first real word conversationally that wasn't referring to someone (Mãe, Pai, Avó, Grandpa, Memére, Tia, etc.) - "mais", which means "more". She was sitting having her dinner with us and friends. And when we were a little too long getting her that next bite of food - there it was: "Mais?"

Since then, it just seems like a snowball of new words coming every day. She sure is trying! Most are Portguese, but she's getting English in there too. We made a list a couple nights ago, but we're not going to be able to keep up.

A couple days ago while on the changing table being tended to by Mamãe LS says: "Fome. mer?" Fome = hungry, and "mer" was an attempt at "comer" which means "eat" (she doesn't have the "C" sound down yet).

Yesterday was a good one. After getting her up from her afternoon nap and getting her on the changing table I called Mãe to let her know LS was up. A few minutes later LS pointed up toward the window, saying "Telafoam!" Yep, I had left the cell phone up on the window sill. She draws the "m" out, and had fun saying it over and over - "Telafoammmmm... Telafoammmmm..." The pronunciation actually isn't that far off because the Portguese pronunciation is more like "Telefun" anyway.

She had yet another surprise in store for us last night though. We've been letting her try her ability with spoons and forks. Generally the spoon for things that we can stick to it for her (like some mashed veggie) and the fork for things that we'll stick for her.

Suddenly she decides to put it all together; she harpoons herself some stuffing with her fork (she was having pork chops, stuffing, and broccolli with us) and puts it in her mouth!

She was so excited that when going to do it again she got a big chunk of stuffing on the fork, and just before getting it to her mouth shook the fork in excitement with a shriek of glee and the stuffing went flying several feet.

Oh how you make us smile LS.