She’s also exhibiting some pretty adorable speech “impediments”. She can’t really say ‘r’ yet, so it always comes out as ‘o’ or ‘w’.  So she says show-wo (shower) and gwo-wo (growl) and biddies (birdies) and twuck (truck). ‘L’ is a little hard, too, so she says tow-wo (towel) and ow-wo (owl). And p sometimes trips her up (but not always – see ‘pasta’). She’s loves peekaboo. I mean, seriously loves – we play peek-a-boo or hide and seek all.the.time. But for whatever reason that ‘p’ stumps her, so she says it keek-a-boo, which is just about the cutest thing ever. I know I’m supposed to just keep saying the words correctly, but sometimes I can’t help myself. Saying show-wo and keek-a-boo is just so much fun!

And finally, Adeline has reached one of the most important language milestones: she has started swearing. That’s my girl. She was eating a yogurt pretzel a few weeks ago and David asked what she was eating. She was eating the damn pretzels non-stop at that point, so I told him what it was and then said, “She loves these fucking pretzels”. Adeline promptly shouted out “fuck!”. And that was just the beginning. I have a bit of a potty mouth (ok, kind of a lot of a potty mouth), so she gets exposed to swear-words pretty regularly. I really have been trying to cut back, but sometimes I don’t even realize I’m doing it. Her repertoire of curses is therefore increasing quite quickly. But come on, there’s nothing cuter than a swearing kid, right? Right?