two words together

yesterday, 9 aug 2010, our darling daughter started stringing words together!
And it's such a pleasure.
You should see her eyes light up, as she tentatively tries putting words together and when we react with claps and delighted laughter. the first time she strings them, she does so ever so quietly. And then... when we cheer for her, she says it again, boldly and loudly.

she started saying Pamma Aaya (Padma aaya) and Took Oil, to say she took an oil bath.
she can say take, too.
And she attempted the polysyllabic name Palaniappan - calling out payappan.
to my dad's utter delighted she has been calling him payya payya for the past 3 weeks - that means little boy you know! imagine a toddler calling her grandfather small boy!

Such joy I tell you! Magic. I believe I have used this a number of times.
Then this morning, she was up at 5 am, talking non-stop till 7 am.
She saw her father's chips on the dresser - don't ask why it was there! and she said 'share' for 'chair' . when I pushed the things on the chair aside, I asked if she wanted to sit, and she said stand! and when she was standing, she reached out to get the chips. There is such purpose in her actions.

She also makes such fantastic connections. I read to her about Chicken Licken who wants to tell the king that the sky is falling down, and she runs to locate her nursery rhyme on Sing A Song of Six Pence because there's a king in that verse. So everytime I say "we need to tell the king" she points at the king in the other book. This is intertextuality my friends! one of the keenest pleasures in reading is the connections between texts. texts speak to one another, and my daughter loves to get them to meet!

I realize now that I must hurry and get photos and videos of her! she is growing growing so quickly,. I am missing moments to treasure!