Sierra Speak

sierra is communicating more and more every day!


it is a really fun stage because she is learning really quickly and it happens right in front of our eyes! she LOVES to copy sounds she hears and try to repeat words that we say.


mommy likes to play the "can you say ____?" game all day long and she's getting really good at it. she at least tries to repeat most of the words i ask her too and gets pretty close. sometimes she doesn't say anything, but you can tell that her mind is thinking, trying to figure it out


this month she has added to her Sierra Speak vocabulary:

bubble - bubbles (this was one of her very first words)
bubble - diaper (still not sure why it's the same word for both, but she's consistent)
nah - nose
eye - eye
ma - mouth
oh - open or out
nuh nuh - no no (i knew this was coming sooner or later)
tuh tuh - hot hot (usually referring to the oven)
baa - sheep
wah wah or awah - water and milk (she sounds like she's saying it in spanish "agua"!)
bye bye or byyyyye - bye bye (she always says it very emphatically, waving frantically at the same time as if she is shooing people out the door. also if she wants to go outside, she goes to the door and says "bye bye")
alala - abuela (my mom)
papa - poppa (my dad - if you ask her to say "abuela", she always says "papa" right afterwards. she knows they go together!)
gee gee - G.G. (kyle's mom)
nah nah - anya (her little cousin)
***we are practicing all of our family names and some are harder than others, but she'll get there :) ***


even when she doesn't say the word, she has mastered the point and grunt ("ahahah" or "uhuhuh") and we just guess until we figure out what she wants. it really does help make things a lot easier!


and she understands soooo much! but that also works to her disadvantage, because it's obvious when she understands that we're telling her NOT to do something, and she does it anyway...she can't fool us!

she also loves to sing along to songs or books with songs. she recognizes a lot of songs she hears and knows the hand movements that go with them.

sorry for the long post, but she is just too cute and fun right now...i don't want to forget anything!