I love you, táta!

Jennifer is busily working on expanding Magda's vocabulary. Yesterday, when Jfer dropped her off by the office, I could hear Magda coming down the hall, greeting my coworkers ("Hi Tim!") and then hapily explaiming "I love you táta" when she saw me. That is totally cool. And then she quickly told Jfer to get on her way by saying "bye bye mama" and closing my office door in her face. :-)

I often wonder how much of what she says is just parroting of stuff we teach her. It's probably much less than what I sometimes think. When we got home, she was happy to see the doggies. At one point, she walked up to Rose and giving her hugs and kisses told her several times "I love you Rosie, I love you". Homer doesn't get that kind of treatment from her...

BTW, I occasionally manage to add a contribution to her vocabulary, too. Magda now calls watermelon (her newest favorite fruit) by its Czech name "meloun". Speaking of watermelon -- cut into half-inch cubes, it's the perfect food for a toddler to practice using her fork on. It's easy to spear, doesn't slide around, and stays nicely on the fork.