Baby Talk

R never stops talking these days. Unless, of course, an adult wants to hear her speak. Then she goes mute. Sometimes we get tired of hearing her chatter, and sometimes we can't help but be amused. Here are a few of our favorite phrases that come out of her mouth.

• Hair-poo - She refers to shampoo as hair-poo. This has been going on for months. We can't help but find it hilarious.
• What you said? - Her current favorite phrase. She asks it over and over so that she can recite conversations. It is also her favorite way of butting in on conversations. But she somehow never says it when we ask her to do something like pick up toys.
• Supercalifragi...um...errr...hmmm...docious! - She can't quite get the Mary Poppins song out, but that doesn't stop her from trying.
• Bobby Shaftoe - She discovered this nursery rhyme in a book from the 1950s, and she has become obsessed. Since neither one of us knew it, we looked it up and discovered it's sung to the tune of "Yankee Doodle." She know sings it. Frequently. And she has my singing voice!

The boys are noisy too. In the past couple of days, M has started chattering. Oddly, his sounds like crying, or at least protesting, until you look at his face. L, of course, continues to babble. Thankfully, we haven't caught him chatting in the middle of the night recently.