Lydia Log: Where Ya-Ya Be?

My many months of wondering when Lydia would start piecing together all of those clumsy word fragments into actual sentences seem to have come to their expected conclusion - with Lydia as a chatty, rambling toddler. Yup, Miss Lydia has become something of a cute parroting sponge - absorbing and repeating new words, barking orders, and hip-hop hollering back questions and answers and somewhat comprehensible sentence chunks, with interesting inflections and accents as she tries to bend her mouth around these new, weird words: heppa-copper (helicopter); deeping (sleeping); chang gra-pour (change diaper); baby gwing (baby swing); need help; want go park; play in tent; go downstairs; run! that way!; so nice to see you; and on and on and on.

It is about this time that Mom and Dad really have to watch what they say, and how they say it, for obvious reasons. Example: having caught myself mid-swear upon discovering my coffee maker had clogged, I left for work to Little Miss repeating "Jeeez-". Ooops.

Oh, and as "Lydia" seems to be quite difficult to pronounce, she has apparently renamed herself "Ya-Ya" and has taken to referring to herself in the third person, like a tiny Bob Dole. Like most things - this is pretty cute now, but I hope it ends long before the 'tweens.

EDIT: I had intended to revisit this post and expand to include other recent, relatively-humorous/interesting developments... but I didn't. Sorry. Blogging, like working and sleeping, is hard in the summer.