Solanne's word of the week: go-go

The wonderful world of signs continues to be alive and well in our family, but verbal language acquisition is Number One on Solanne's To Do list. She says mama, dada, nana, suce, and non! (somehow in all this, she's forgotten how to say " chat," which was her first word).

Her latest word is yogurt (pronounced "go-go"). A few days ago we were thoroughly surprised when Derek opened the fridge to pull something out and Solanne ran over, shouting. She was pointing frantically at what seemed to be her drink of milk, so we took it out for her. She started to cry and screamed even more, and this time we made out the sounds she was making: "go-go! go-go!"

I took out the yogurt and asked her, "is this what you want?" She smiled, nodded and said, "go-go!" Of course! Yogurt is her favourite food, so shouldn't have come as a big surprise. She looked up at me with her big eyes and said "go-go" again, so I happily complied.

Now, when the fridge is open, when she walks by the fridge, or whenever the thought even crosses her mind, Solanne enthusiastically asked for her go-go. The first day, she ate four small containers of it. I've slowed down her consumption, but it's hard to resist the sound of those baby words.