New words!

Grace's vocabulary is expanding so quickly these days! Just this week she's started using two syllable words (and phrases). So far, it's:

• leopard - a puzzle piece from her alphabet puzzle book
  
• purple - Daddy told her she was wearing a purple shirt this morning
• sit down! - What Mama and Daddy say when she's standing on her rocking chair. And now what she tells herself.
• grandma - We're pretty sure we've heard this one a few times now.

Ok, so there's a handful of other two syllable words she's mastered for quite some time, but they all consist of double-syllables - mama, dada, mimi, coco, and so on. And of course, it'd probably take a parent's ear to translate from Gracie-speech, but to us it's amazing to hear!

Update: I should have added "pappy" too! She definitely knows that one, but I neglected to list it earlier as it doesn't quite qualify as a double-syllable. But we definitely know what she means! :-)

She's also started singing recognizable songs now. The first is from a lullaby CD we have called Sounds like Fun. It's got a phonetics song on it that goes something like:

apple, apple, ah, ah, ah
apple, apple, ah, ah, ah
baby, baby, bah, bah, bah
....

A week or so ago, I caught her walking around going "ap, ap, ah ah ah" in a singsong voice. And a few days ago, she's starting picking up a boardbook we have that's a humurous adaptation of Skip to My Lou, and singing "lou lou". That's as far as she gets, but it's pretty cute.