It must be hard being a toddler in the midst of acquiring the necessary language skills to function in society. While Madeleine is now well able to express herself verbally, she doesn't quite have the skills to understand the fact that I can't always satisfy her needs immediately. For instance, when she's sitting in the kitchen with three milk gallons taken out of the fridge, repeatedly telling me "Aunt muk. Aunt muk" while I'm trying to pour the scalding water from the kettle into the French press, she is in no frame of mind to understand, "Hang on just a minute..." When I was finally able to turn my attention to her and ask, "You want more milk?", she was overcome with joyous relief, laughing and crying at the same time and doing her happy dance, exclaiming "Mmm-hmm! OKAY!"
Later on today I was able to converse with her without distractions, so she was a much happier camper as we discussed the bapboom, Baby Boo-boo, and the doll stroller. Here's a video excerpt of our chatting:
And after lunch she even made up her own song (clearly she is related to Julia) while she danced two of Julia's paper doll princesses around. "So wo FAAAAAAAALL..." or something like that. Maybe she and Julia can form up a song-writing team; just imagine the possibilities with those two working together...
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