Pearl's curiosity is growing like a crazy weed. She wants to know about new things, and she recognizes familiar things. All day long she points at objects and makes her favorite comment: ahunh!
Ahunh must be a very special word like shalom perhaps, because seems to have many different meanings. Sometimes it can be a question: ahunh? Sometimes it sounds like both at the same time. How does one understand? Context, context, context.
She recognizes people in photographs. Comment = ahunh! A banana in the grocery store? Comment = ahunh! Sometimes she just points wildly until her finger finds something interesting. The process is completely vigorous.
Yesterday Pearl discovered something new, something small and white and hanging in the sky. You might call it the moon, but Pearl just pointed and exclaimed ahunh! It was a half moon that had begun to rise by mid-afternoon. She wanted it very much so she followed it, just like in the storybooks. She didn't capture it at that time, but one of these days I feel pretty sure she will.
I love it... them taking on their own language... right now Lilliana is actually saying something in our language that gets repeated over and over... wha zat and wha zisssss... to EVERYTHING! LOL... it is so cute... I love hearing it...
But her vowel sounds are starting up and she is really babbling a real stream now.. with all the inflections of real speech... we will understand it soon!
Posted by: Chloe | 19 January 2005 at 03:06 PM
Awwww!!!!!
Posted by: shannon | 19 January 2005 at 05:03 PM
So, should that picture be titled: 'Pearl was here.' or simply 'Pearl as Kilroy?"
Posted by: Bob O'Shaughnessy | 19 January 2005 at 11:04 PM
Gabo is doing lots of grunting these days. He always gets his meaning across.
I love that picture of her peeking.
Posted by: Mieke | 20 January 2005 at 10:16 PM
So sweet! I miss those days. I mean... things are good and all... but cherish entries like this so you can recall exactly how things used to be. :)
Posted by: Liz | 21 January 2005 at 09:59 PM