Kate has started to speak in full sentences. One of the first she started saying was, "Here you go, Sweet Pea," which she'd say when handing us something. Not sure where she picked it up (Grandma Honey, maybe?), but it still brings a smile whenever she says it. The other day she said to me, "Dada, knock it off" when she didn't like the way I was pretending to speak like a robot.
It's interesting to hear her work on the verb to be. Instead of saying "I'm tired" or "I'm okay", she'll say "My tired" or "Me okay". The other day she comforted Audrey by saying "You okay, you okay." Audrey did the same thing at a similar stage in her speech development, and it's probably universal, but it's still cute to hear.
Audrey's pretty much mastered the basics of spoken English by now, with an occasional exception. One interesting one has been around the letter "s". For the longest time she struggled with words with an initial "s" sound, such that "Spanish," "skirt," and "school" would come out as "Panish", "curt," and "cool." This was even though she could pronounce the "s" sound when it came in the middle or at the end of a word. She's pretty much got it down now, although "squid" (one of her favorite foods, when fried as calamari) will still sometimes come out as "fwid" with an "f" sound at the beginning. The letter "l" can also give her some trouble, often getting pronounced as a "w," so that "Lily" and "lube" come out as "Will-we" and "wube."
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