Conversations with my baby

Nixie constantly amazes me at the things she does, the way she understands things and the words she says. She is only 22 months and already talks so much. She has been talking well since at least 18 months and talking in sentences for a couple of months now too. I love that I can have a conversation with her now and we understand each other (most of the time). This morning I asked her if she could say a rather difficult word, I'm trying to remember what it was now, oh yes - antibacterial - and she blew me away by actually saying the word correctly. It was soo sooo soooooo cute!

I remember distinctly when I realised Nixie understood more than I gave her credit for. She had just started walking so I think she must have been about 14 or 15 months. I was trying to get dinner cooked one afternoon and she was all over me and I was getting so frustrated at my inability to get anything done as she wanted to be picked up all the time and was continually tugging at my pants.
I turned to her and angrily said "GO AWAY" and pointed into the lounge. Next thing I know she toddles off to the lounge room with a sad little face. I got such a stab of sorrow in my heart at my actions that I immediately dropped what I was doing and went over to her to apologise to her and give her a cuddle. From then on in I was so much more careful with what I said. She knows!

So many times in the car she has mimicked something I have said and had me in fits of laughter.
She turned her little eyes on to mine in the rear view mirror a couple of months ago and said to me "Eyeballs are watching yooo-oou", and she says it with this gorgeous little sing song voice I nearly drove off the road laughing with her. 

Her little cheeky personality is really starting to shine through and I'm getting glimpses of who she is. She loves to make people laugh and will keep doing something or saying something if you laugh.

Just yesterday after placing her order at the coffee shop "babyccino please" the lady said she wouldn't be too long but just had to make someone a smoothie first. I said no worries only to have another little voice pipe up - "No worries", it certainly makes you smile :)
How much do little ones love their babyccinos huh! (and marshmallows) :-0

Here is a cute little video of Nixie saying grace before her dinner. She blew me away a couple of months ago when I sat down with her to say grace for her. I always say to her "Hold my hand and close your eyes while we say grace". I would then say grace and she would repeat "Amen" at the end after me. This time though - while I waited for her to hold my hand and close her eyes she jumped right in and said "Thank you Jesus". It was so special. Now she says nearly the whole lot, she just misses out the bit "please bless it to my body" but that will come - its a long sentence! Check it out:

xxoo