What Ezri says. . . a tale of two days.

On July 15 for a couple hours I wrote down most of what Ezri was saying.
Here is what that sounded like (approximately as some of her words aren’t standard pronunciation yet, but I could tell what she meant):
bottle
ginger (referring to a neighborhood cat)
no
more
uh-oh (grape goes onto the floor)
grape
Manchi
bagel
I-see-you
up
choo-choo
nipple
dada
soon
pen
ding-dong (the doorbell noise)
mama shower (said because I had wet hair)
glasses (said because I did not yet have my glasses on in the morning and an Amanda without glasses is not right)
tail
bedtime
hair
round round
finger
clap-clap
fish
bye
shoes
buckle
towel
wet
wee-ooo wee-ooo (siren noise)
duck
quack
tickle
hat
frog
keys
ear
baby
wash
cat
poop
mirror
monkey
nose
Mark
grandma
tam-ma
belly
fan
swing
Ezri
Harvey

The morning featured mostly unconnected single words. Mostly they are nouns.

Then I did this again last month on September 25.
Here is what that sounded like (approximately):
Bump head
Ellie brush (Ezri wanted Eric to brush our cat Ellie)
Ellie necklace (How Ezri describes Ellie’s collar)
Ellie fur
Ezri potty
Potty box (we recently acquired a potty though Ezri is still in diapers and she was playing with the box it came in)
Sushi hair brush
Sushi brush time
Ezri hiccup
a paw
Leave it down
Mama porch (Ezri went out on the porch and this was her request that I join her)
cheers (cheerios)
grapes
roll, roll, sugarbabies clap-clap-clap (a Favorite fingerplay from library storytime)
Inga-inga
dada
Dada back here
Ezri cheers (eating cheerios)
Ezri water (drinking from her sippy cup)
Silly Sally went to town (from the book Silly Sally by Audrey Wood)
Ezri drink it
This bottle
Hippo yawn bug teeny boys girls in betweeny ( a favorite rhyme slightly garbled)
MOUSE! (When asked if she wanted to go to storytime)
Dada mitten
Apple
Owls Dancing (a favorite video clip)
Ezri No Poop Just Fart (very informative)
Cow Cookies (after a favorite book The Cow Loves Cookies by Karma Wilson)

On this second day, she is saying some verbs and two word phrases which often lack the verb. She’s also doing a lot of quoting her favorite songs, books, and rhymes.

Sometimes it takes some detective work to figure out what she is talking about. I am glad for example that her babysitter told me about asking Ezri when she was digging with a stick at the park if she was digging to China. Now Ezri will pick up a stick, tap the ground and say “Ezri China.” Without the background this statement makes little sense.

Yesterday in the car she started saying “Tricky Daddy,” and “Argle Flargle.” Sure this sounds like nonsense, but I figured out “Argle Flargle” was the nonsense words the baby says in the book Knuffle Bunny. Then Eric said, “Oh, Tricky daddy is Trixie’s daddy!” as the baby’s name is Trixie in the book and it is the adventures of her and her daddy.

Ezri knows what she’s talking about, but her parents don’t always.

Yesterday for the first time she did all of the fingerplay “roll, roll sugarbabies” including the push and pull which she has always left out before. She also sang correctly most of the lyrics to Twinkle, Twinkle Time for Bed (A Rookie Toddler Book from Scholastic – all of this line of Rookie Toddler books seem to be perfectly pitched for where my toddler is now).

It’s so great that Ezri can tell us things now.