A whole 'nother language.

When your precious child is born the only thing their most basic way to verbally communicate with you is to cry. You have to learn to figure out what each type of cry means. Next they are able to say a few simple words like "hi" and "bye" that mostly match what they mean with the exception of when they say "mama" and mean daddy, or really anybody close to them. Then they become toddlers. Their sweet little minds are exploding with knowledge and building up a new vocabulary every day. Not only do they understand more of what you say, they are trying to tell you more too. It's a pretty awesome phenomenon to experience.

I seriously could not try to list all of the words Eva has learned over the past year if I tried. Somewhere between turning one and becoming almost two, her vocabulary has increased by a billion percent. Now here is the catch -  toddlers speak so many words, but to most people it's practically a whole different language. Fortunately I am not most people. I am a mom. I can totally understand what she is telling me, at least for the most part. I guess I will be her interpreter for now! Here is my best attempt to remember some of the funny ways that she pronounces words right now.

Spoon - "poon"

Socks - "ocks"

Rock (as in hold me and rock in a chair) -"ock" 

Sandwich - "bite" (because her dad has always said, "Do you want a bite?" when he eats a sandwich)

When she wants to be picked up and carried she says, "Carry you?" (because we say, "Do you want me to carry you?" 

Cup -  "bup"

Binky - "bebe" (for her pacifier, which sounds completely different to me than when she says "baby" for her favorite doll). 

Shoes - "ewws"

Yogurt - "ogre"

Movie - "meemee"

Cheese - "eeese"

Read - "ing"

Bread - "bed"

Cookie - "keykey"

Animals - "mamall"

Elmo - "melmo"

Dora - "dowda"

Gorilla - "kaka"

Eva - "Eeya"

I'm sure none of these come across as cute as they really are and my memory of how she prounuces these words will fade in time....so I'm also including a video clip :)