Baby Sounds

She's six months old now and babbling away. She does a lot of "bahbahbah" and "dadada" and luckily for my ego has recently added "mamama" to the repertoire. Its not like the dada stuff was directed at her dad or anything, nor does the mamama seem any more addressed to me than her toes, but still, I was starting to get a complex.

She also frequently shouts out to "Nginge!" (pronounced "ingingay" should you be interested in playing along at home...) We're not sure, but think she's supporting a largely unknown candidate for a Kenyan cabinet position. It definitely sounds like Swahili at any rate.

And when she's upset about some perceived slight, she makes a pathetic little whimper that sounds exactly like a sound Lassie used to make. I'm not talking about the sharp BARK BARK BARK Lassie employed when trying to impart the exact location of the well into which Timmy had clumsily fallen. Remember that one? Timmy's dad would listen for a few seconds and then say "What girl? You say Timmy and the Murphy girl are playing doctor in the O'Shaunessey's hayloft? And that Timmy's losing but doesn't seem too upset about it?" Not that hyperexpressive BARK. It's this other little whimpery noise -- a "hmmm, hmm, hmmmmmm" that the tot makes when angling for sympathy.