Speak Up

Eva obviously understands much more than she can speak, but manages to communicate pretty well with one or two-word sentences. She's so expressive. She'll say "where go?" when a toy rolls away or a person leaves. She's finally started to say "thank you", though it sounds more like "tink-oo", and most people don't understand it. Her favorite DVD is Baby MacDonald, all about the farm. She imitates the animal noises, names the food ("apple" is the only word that's distinguishable) and begins dancing when the song "Old MacDonald" starts to play, trying to sing along (saying like "E-I-E-I-E-I:" a hundred times before finally getting to the "Oh"). For some reason, though she's heard us say "horsie" a million times, she calls all horses "achoo". I really don't know how she came up with that, but she's sticking to it.