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Soren's Referential Words

Soren has learned two new words this past week: "soos" (shoes) and "duht" (duck). These words serve a very different purpose from all the other words that he knows --and I hope they are the beginning of a trend! All of his other words are very expressive. He uses them to tell us how he is feeling or what he wants. In his previous lexicon, there were words to convey happiness ("hi"), amusement ("aht" and "doh"), desire ("juz" and "eee"), or abject misery ("nono" and "mama"). But these new words he uses simply for the joy of naming something. With pride, he points out birds at the park and says "duht". He gets just as much pleasure out of holding aloft his toy duck at home. He also identifies his toy penguin as a "duht". I think that's rather clever since we didn't teach him that at all. And whenever we put his shoes on or take them off, he repeats over and over (while ki

Advice Too Serious for a Baby Shower

This post is a lot more about my feeelings (as Audrey would say) than I usually discuss in this blog but it needs to be written. It probably doesn't need to be written for any of my readers; perhaps it only needs to be written for me. It's about my experiences with Soren as a new baby and the valuable truth I want to remember when I have another new baby. A lot of my friends are pregnant with their first child right now and so this spring has been the baby shower season for me. Baby showers are a great opportunity to give gifts and advice, so I've been thinking a lot about the gadgetry I was most grateful for and the knowledge I wish I'd had when Soren was born. Picking out a baby shower gift is easy. Scott and I knew immediately what material possession made having a baby 10xs easier: our sling. We went without diapers and bottles and didn't use our bassinet or stroller for months. But we would never have survived the first week without the sling we carried So

Soren's Lexicon

aht - "Watch out! I'm throwing stuff!" buh - "book" doh - "Hey, look! I just knocked those blocks down!" dops - "Whispering is fun." hi - "Hello, you. I am so happy to see you!" juz - "I'd like some fluid in a sippy cup." mamamama - "I am very unhappy." nonononono - "It's so frustrating when you won't do what I want you to." rrrrr - "I am pretending to drive this car." ssssss - "Look! It's a snake!" tsz tsz tsz - "Please read Caps for Sale to me!" uh-oh - "Well that turned out differently than I expected." wasat - "Give me the word for that thing I am pointing at."