Budding Linguists

Those of you who know Lily also know that she spoke early, clearly and often.  This can make her seem older than she is.  But, sometimes she doesn't quite hit the mark with her words, as shown with these recent examples:

Sometimes they aren't even real words:

"'Andvisingly', Sam, you need to get out of my room."

Sometimes they are real words used the wrong way:

"Mom, I am trying to get in the 'limit' of washing my hair really well."  ("habit", I think)
"'Expertly', I don't like these beans."  (okay, maybe that is exactly how she meant it!)

And sometimes the words are all real and in the right order, but they are just funny:

(Sitting on the couch with her shirt pulled up so her belly is showing) "The good thing about tickling yourself is you can stop whenever you want."


As for the other budding linguist in our house, we are probably the only ones that understand most of his language so far.  A few words come out clearly, but we like to say he has an imaginary friend named "Ana".  He calls her name often, sometimes very urgently.  We don't know what this word means yet, but we do know we better hop to it when he says it. :-)