Dada

No pictures this time, but I want to record a memory of a milestone. Rosa said "Dada" on Sunday for the first time! It was pretty much accidental syllables coming together, but we were so excited and have said it back to her enough that she has said it multiple times since. Even though Dada was out of town on a business trip, yesterday when I was wiping down Rosa's face after dinner (which all kids seem to hate), she called out "Dada!" with perfect diction, as in, "Dada, come save me from the wipey monster!" 

So now she says both Mama and Dada... we'll just have to keep reinforcing who those words refer to! It seems like her little mouth has discovered lots of new sounds all at once. For the longest time the only consonant she was doing was M, but now she's doing D sounds along with Gs, Ks, Ns, and Ys. She's started to sound like she's really carrying on a conversation, but in her own language.

Along with language development, Rosa is working on immune system development. She's had two snotty colds this month, and now she's got some kind of bug which gave her a high fever yesterday and tummy problems and a sore throat today. Poor thing. The infant Tylenol seems to work well for her (and she even seems to like it), so we've got the temperature under control. Now if I can just get her to eat and drink. Hopefully she'll get her appetite back when she's feeling better.