Blue Yowies

Much like we experienced with Ethan a few years earlier, Madeleine’s language skills are finally developing to the point where she’s starting to string words together into complete thoughts… except sometimes they’re not exactly coherent thoughts unless you have a Madeleine-to-English dictionary handy. Fortunately, as her parents, we do.

Some of her more unusual words:

• Yowie = cat (a sort of derivation on “meow-ee”)
• Nay-nay = horse
• Ruffy = dog (which is, in fact, how we came to name our dog “Ruffy”)
• Blee-oo = Blue

The funny thing about that last one, ”blee-oo,” is that to Madeleine all colors are blue. It gets pretty confusing. For a while we weren’t entirely sure she could actually distinguish colors, but now we’re pretty confident she can. Just don’t ask her to name them!

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