Speaking 'Charly'

Charly talks all the time. We don't always understand her, but she talks all the time. At home. She's pretty reserved in public. Some words she says loud and clear. Like:

boy, baby, snow, moon, sun, cold, burr, Papa, Grandma, remote, George (for Curious George), purple, blue, pink, cup, cake, please, thanks, excuse me, 'What doin'?, off, on, book, read, touch, watch, sheep, cow, toot, poop, pee pee, shower, hi, dump (in reference to her building blocks, not something else), truck, Beau, bow, cat, ear, eyes, nose, honk, hair, ouch, mine, sad, crying, couch, chair, sleep, come, monster (usually in reference to The Monster at the End of This Book iPad app), game, Hawkeye, hot, heart, marker, Mama, Dada, stop, away, home, eat, don't, bite

Then there are others. Words that she says quite frequently, that took Kelli and I awhile to decipher. Words like:

• "Eta" - Elliot (our cat)
• "Popeye" - her pacifier
• "Binka" - her blanket
• "Ca-cai" - color (in her coloring books)
• "Heta" - heavy
• "Mutta" - muffin
• "Cackle" - tickle
• "Hooj" - huge (usually in reference to a full moon, which she's obsessed with, or her mom's belly)
• "Mimi's" - M&M's
• "Waawaa" - water
• "Coi" - car
• "Pod" - iPod (or if she's lucky, iPad, which she gets really excited about)
• "Tay-tay" - her Uncle Taylor
• "Bane" - her Uncle Blaine
• "Shrooz" - her cousin Cruz

There are more. Plenty more. But that's all we could think of off the top of our head. Today is a snow day, school was cancelled, and tonight we're supposed to go to Rock of Ages with Beau and Ashley. We just hope the snow stops long enough to get a babysitter to our house.