Graceisms

Grace has a ton of expressions, many of which are things that would come out of an adult's mouth. Others are uniquely her own. My favorites right now: oop (instead of oops), oh no, oh yeah, uh huh, aba (short for arriba/up). We have a lot of new things to talk about these days and quite a few new Graceisms. My personal favorite is when we walk in the door of our apartment, Grace says: "Home" pauses then cheers "YAY!" It's really funny. The expression that takes second place? When Grace burps, she puts her hand to her mouth and says, "me" - short for excuse me.

Something else she's just starting doing is putting words together - often mixing English and Spanish. For example, she says, "More agua please" or "Milk now." The introduction of "now" definitely surprised us, and the first few times we weren't sure she knew what it meant. Oh, but she does. We're trying to stress that she use "please" instead or at least use it with the "now." It's very hard to keep a straight face, especially since she asks for "now" nicely.