favorite new Sophie words

"all-lo?" (hello)
"app--peee" (happy)
"shoes"
"Eye-yah" (Maya)
"noh" (nose)
"Eyye"
"Mowww" (Mouth)
"Eee" (Ear)
"Baby"
"dainty" (Thank you)
"Bell-lay" (Ballet)
"play"
"Bah-lay, Bah-lay" (blanket)
"app-jew" (apple juice)
"milk"
"book"

She loves saying names of family members too. I won't list them all here. But she's got most of them down. Hardly any of them rank, though, with "Go-Go" or "Emma" both of which are repeated at LEAST 20 times a day.

We sing the Doxology at most meals. Sophie usually gets us started by singing the first "Praise..." and then she just listens with eager smiling eyes to Maya's loud voice belting out the rest. When we get to the end ("Amen")...Sophie confidently joins in.... shouting "Emma! EMMA! EMMA!" ....which of course reminds her of .... "Go-go...Go-go..."


Unfortunately though, even with her advancing vocabulary, "NO" is still a favorite word...often screamed in a rather demonic sort-of monster voice over and over again. She thinks it's hilarious... mostly because it drives her sister crazy...especially in the car. Maya tries hard to respond with kind words, "Sophie, don't talk that way....sweetie....talk nice" "Sophie....please stop saying that" "Sophie...say 'yes'...don't say that."

Eventually though...the unnerving sound gets to her... and Maya's face tightens, her teeth clench..."SOPHIE! STOP THAT!!....RRRRR"

then back to..."Sophie..here....do you want this toy?" "Sophie..hi...I love you."

"Momma, Sophie is pee-pee-ing!"

It's true.

The two girls were sitting on the potties together in our red bathroom, Maya on the big potty and Sophie on the small one. Sophie loves to sit on the potty like her big sister. She often tells me when she wants to use the 'pot-pot' or if she's busy with 'poo-poo'. Usually when I let her sit, she still has all her clothes on though...it just isn't usually worth all the trouble. But this time I let her try it, no diaper. I was just outside the door clearing the dishes from lunch...when Maya yelled...

"Momma! Sophie is pee-pee-ing!!!"

After lots of smiles, cheers, applause, we made a few phone calls.... Daddy. Two grandmas.

Sophie is pretty proud of herself. She knows this is big.