More hats

Last week's hats are so last season. They don't hold a candle to this week's style:






When Madeleine is not rocking the fashion world with her stylish hats, she is busy accumulating more and more vocab words. I have been surprised over the past few weeks just how many words she will unexpectedly repeat, as in the following example:

ME: Julia, Daddy watched that video we liked, and he cracked up.
JULIA: He did?
MADELEINE: Cracked! Cracked!

If she can't quite tackle the entire word, she'll at least give us the first syllable, somewhat reminiscent of her old "uh" days when prompted to say "uh-oh." The best example of this concept is at snack time every day, when I ask her if she wants a biscuit. "Biss! Biss!" she replies, frantically trying to open the cupboard and pull her biscuits out.

And even if she's not yet capable of saying a word, she'll still give it a valiant effort:

MADELEINE: (pointing at my coffee cup) Atzat?
ME: That's my cup. Cup. Can you say cup?
MADELEINE: (smiling gleefully) Butts!
ME: Close!