Five Recent Julian Milestones:
1. Learning to say "Ree! Ree!" when she wants you do read a book. If there's any doubt which book, look for the one she's hoisted over her head and it about to drop onto your lap like a few ounces of bricks.
2. Learning to say "Bee!" for "please." This is a major event in socialization, and - funny smells from the diaper notwithstanding - her first step toward becoming a full participant in etiquette. So far, saying "bee" is mostly done at the dinner table.
3. Using "bee" as part of a more-or-less real sentence. She often says, "Mo, bee!" ("More, please!") And this afternoon, she even said, "Mo, bee, bas," - "More, please, pasta!" This means she's now more verbally adept than the average wingnut talk-radio caller.
4. Using and abusing "bee." A final element of the "bee" phenomenon is that she's already using it in several ways: sincerely (when she's just finished one handful of food and is ready for "mo"), desperately (when she's asked a couple times already), proudly (when she says is automatically, without even really thinking of it), and - my favorite - sarcastically (Julia: "Mo!" Mom or Dad: "More what, honey?" Julia: "Mo, beeeeeeeeeeeeee!" [smiling maniacally])
5. Taking a digger. On the way out the back door on Saturday, my hand slipped and she fell head-first off the top step onto the second step. I caught her by one ankle before she went any further, but she has a bruise on her forehead and a really bad scrape on the bridge of her nose. She only cried for a few minutes, though her abject wailing was punctuated by saying, "Unny!" - "Honey!" - to us, over and over. It must not hurt too much now, because she only notices it on those (frequent) occasions when she's admiring herself in the mirror.
2. Learning to say "Bee!" for "please." This is a major event in socialization, and - funny smells from the diaper notwithstanding - her first step toward becoming a full participant in etiquette. So far, saying "bee" is mostly done at the dinner table.
3. Using "bee" as part of a more-or-less real sentence. She often says, "Mo, bee!" ("More, please!") And this afternoon, she even said, "Mo, bee, bas," - "More, please, pasta!" This means she's now more verbally adept than the average wingnut talk-radio caller.
4. Using and abusing "bee." A final element of the "bee" phenomenon is that she's already using it in several ways: sincerely (when she's just finished one handful of food and is ready for "mo"), desperately (when she's asked a couple times already), proudly (when she says is automatically, without even really thinking of it), and - my favorite - sarcastically (Julia: "Mo!" Mom or Dad: "More what, honey?" Julia: "Mo, beeeeeeeeeeeeee!" [smiling maniacally])
5. Taking a digger. On the way out the back door on Saturday, my hand slipped and she fell head-first off the top step onto the second step. I caught her by one ankle before she went any further, but she has a bruise on her forehead and a really bad scrape on the bridge of her nose. She only cried for a few minutes, though her abject wailing was punctuated by saying, "Unny!" - "Honey!" - to us, over and over. It must not hurt too much now, because she only notices it on those (frequent) occasions when she's admiring herself in the mirror.
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