This wasnt a sudden thing, but we have noticed a lot over the past week how much Brooke's language development has grown. Not only is she saying and repeating every word, and calling out words for everything she knows, but she is now combining several words to form sentences! We noticed it a lot on vacation and she just keeps talking more and more since we got home. She is also "telling stories" by putting several words together to explain something she saw or something that happened. For example, we saw sea lions at sea world, both during a feeding time and during a show. She talked about it a lot afterwards. We would ask her about the seals, or she would bring them up. Her conversation typically goes like this:
"seals!"
"arf arf arf" (her sea lion noise"
"treat" (because we told her the sea lions were making that noise for treats)
"dance!" as she shakes her tooshie (because the sea lions danced during the show)
She is also saying "Hi Mommy" "Bye Wrigley" "Hello Daddy" "more milk" and a bunch of other things like that. Its been pretty great listening to her talking and having conversations and its hard not to laugh when we see how serious she is as she tries to explain things to us.
