We had a rough start in the waiting room. There was a Dad that came in who was about 6 foot something tall and had a really deep voice. Katie walked up to him, stared at him for about a minute or two and then burst into tears. Then, in typical Katie fashion, she kept looking over at him or walking up to him so that she could cry again. I have no idea why she does that. It's the strangest thing.
The appointment itself was pretty quick. The doc asked me a few questions and then it was time for the examination. I had Katie on my lap facing me. I then had to lean her back so that her head was on the doctors lap. At this point, most babies start crying. This makes it pretty easy to see everything that is going on in their mouths. Katie was happy to oblige the doctor with a nice bit of wailing.
She's got a molar in there! I didn't even know. What a slacker Mom I am. No wonder sleep has been a little rough the past month or so. Jeez. So, she's got eight teeth all together with another two right below the gum ready to come out.
She got a little goodie bag with a new toothbrush, floss, a smiley-face sticker and a fish bath toy. Nice haul, huh?
This weekend I decided to write down all the words that Katie says now.
We found out that she has at least 45 words that she uses regularly. I guess I could list them all out, but here's just a quick sampling:
pahta (pasta)
muh, muh, muh! (more)
beybee (baby)
nigh-nigh (night night)
uh-oh!
mil-KUH (milk)
grrrr-grrrr (bear)
cah (car)
k-kie (cookie)
Most of her words either sound vaguely like the word they represent (i.e. boon (spoon/moon)) or are the sound that the object makes (i.e. bah-bah (sheep)). But there's one word that makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. It was Huzbend that actually figured out what she was trying to say.
It's "Rahbie". "Rahbie" equals water. Yeah. Weird, huh? How do you get "rahbie" from water? Who knows.
She also has another word. "Mum-mie". I can hear you already. "Oh, how sweet! She says Mommy". Nope. "Mum-mie" equals Monkey.
Huzbend and I have decided that we are going to start using Katie language so that we can have secret conversations. For example:
"The MMMM-MMMM ate a poon. Then, DaDa got on his bye and went ba-ba. There's a bah-oon in a teeee and I've got cheeeee in my buh."
For all you know, I could've just laid out our plans to take over the world. Well, I guess you'll find out in due time. Yes, in due time, my friends.
BWA-HAHAHAHAHAHA!
