Well actually, we're not sure exactly what Clara's saying, but we often find it funny anyway. I have to say, she's talking so much more than a month ago, but we're understanding so much less. How does that work? I guess when she had a limited vocabulary of single words we had a pretty good chance of getting the meaning, but now she tells entire stories and we have no idea what she's saying.
It will come....
Lee is often saying "I'm true" or "You're not true" instead of using the word "truthful." It's very cute.
Last weekend I had the girls at the lake and Bridges stayed home to get some work done. When we came back, I asked Lee (in front of him) "you missed Daddy, didn't you?" and she said "no." Then I said "well, you thought about him a lot, right?" and she paused a bit and then responded "no, I didn't think about him at all!" I was about to press her more on it but Bridges asked me to stop.
A while ago Lee said to me "Preciously, I'm a bit too warm right now." Preciously?!? It's amazing how they have the confidence to throw words around even if they don't know what they mean.
When we were blueberry picking about a month ago, Lee was talking a nonstop stream. She was very excited, and she was just talking, talking, talking. At one point she said "Mommy, I'm exactly the right height today. These berries are right in front of me. I won't always be this height. Soon I will be taller. But today I'm just perfect!" The funny thing about this is that there are blueberries from down low all the way to six or seven feet up, so really any height is just about perfect. But the joy with which she said this was so pure.
Lee still has a tough time with the concept of tomorrow. She insists on saying "the next day," and if we use the word tomorrow, she'll say "do you mean the next day?" Similarly, she will often say "this night" instead of "last night," and we have had very long conversations about tomorrow and yesterday and why today is never tomorrow or yesterday.
Her sense of time is generally still a great cause of amusement for us. She will so confidently throw around numbers, as in "Mommy, I think Clara's been awake up there for about twenty hours or so."
Last night our friends were coming by with their son James, and so in the morning Lee turned to Bridges, her face lit up, and she said "today is the day that James is coming over, right?" I told her yes. Then she started smiling even more and asked "and he is going to stay for dinner, right?" Again, yes. She clapped excitedly and then said "I'm going to pretend that he's here already!"
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