One of my favorite things about Zoe these days is that she’s constantly learning and saying new things. She seems to pick up things overnight; almost every day we’re treated to a word or phrase that she had never before said. (“Did you teach her that?” Q and I often find ourselves asking one another.) Her sentences have started getting longer, also; the other day, for example, she said “I want a banana.” And one of her favorite things to call out is, “Mommy\/Daddy, where are you?” (Needless to say, she likes it when we’re around.)<\/p>\n
As a parent, it’s great fun to hear these new words on a daily basis, and it’s particularly rewarding to actually understand <\/em>what could otherwise be dismissed as jibberish. Zoe kept asking for something over and over the other morning, and Q and I were quite relieved when we finally figured out that what she wanted was stickers. And just yesterday, when I put her down for a nap she repeated the same (hard-to-understand) sentence over and over until I figured out what she was asking for. “Oh, you want me to read the bumble-bee book?” I asked her (after inquiring about a few other things), and she nodded in a victorious manner. She was probably thinking, “finally!” but I was pretty proud of myself for finally figuring it out.<\/p>\n -M<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One of my favorite things about Zoe these days is that she’s constantly learning and saying new things. She seems to pick up things overnight; almost every day we’re treated to a word or phrase that she had never before said. (“Did you teach her that?” Q and I often find ourselves asking one another.) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-25twenty-one-to-twenty-two-months"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}