Saturday, March 05, 2005

Guk

Roxi's vocabulary, if you are imaginative and wish to call it as such, is expanding rapidly. Gone are the days of solid ba, ba, ba, ba, bas. Now she will carry on full babbling conversations, an example of which might be, "Ga goo. Bwa bee ya da bee. Oh. Guk." If you stand far enough away, it sort of sounds like English.

But her favorite word this week has been guk. Versatile word, this guk. It's used as an exclamation sometimes. Guk! It's used as a sort of affirmation sometimes. Da dee. Dee guk! Most of the time though, it's used as punctuation. Bwa bwa yo ya ba boh. Guk.

Another observation of ours is that when Roxi is upset, she usually says, "Maaaaa, maa, maaaa!" When she is happy, she usually says, "Da dee da da da!" I'm trying not to take it personally.

A few of Roxi's more impressive accidental "word" utterances include: glucose, abracadabra, kayak, I'm a duck, hi daddy and overnight. We can't get enough of watching her converse with her toys (sometimes at length). And nothing is better than walking into her room and being greeted with what sounds a lot like hi! Love it. Guk.