Baby Bethany is beginning to talk – a lot. She is 18 months now, and although she has been copying words and phrases for quite a while, she has just begun to assemble her words into phrases and sentences of her own.
She is also becoming far more interactive, and she’s beginning to display that she understands more and more of what we are talking about or even what we are thinking.
She’s always eager to repeat commands and corrections just in case her older sibs didn’t hear me. She has enough vocabulary to tattle if somebody offends her. And she’s tried to issue a few commands of her own, in carefully studied style.
Today, she asked Kaitlyn for a drink of water. Kaitlyn pretended not to understand her, and Bethany repeated her request a second time, then a third, then a fourth. Finally we saw it dawn upon her that Kaitlyn was teasing her. She grinned along with us at the joke, then set her jaw and frowned. She pointed at Kaitlyn and commanded her: “Kay-kay, obey!”
She got her water, of course. How could Kaitlyn resist that?
Her nickname may be Bessie, but I’m often tempted to change it to Bossy.
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She’s so adorable!
I remember when Lillie started to talk around the same age. So sweet! Baby talk is such fun.
How cute is that!!!!! Love it
That is a really cute story!
She is so adorable! Very bright, too, to be talking so well at 18 months.
In the first picture, I think she looks a lot like your third daughter.
I have a daughter who is 16 months old, so I know exactly what you’re talking about!
It’s so much fun, seeing their vocabulary develop and expand, and how they tie their personality and emotions all into it. It’s amazing how smart they are.
And, I LOVE the red polka-dot dress!
What a cute story. She is so adorable.
She looks like her Dad. That first picture of her is the spittin’ image.
Wow! She looks alot like her sisters!!
Aww! How cute!
She sounds like one of those girls that “likes things done her way”.
Know what I mean.
Yep, our daughter will be 2 tomorrow & she is number 5 of 6 children. Boy, is she bossy! I think it is why the Lord blessed us with another girl- she needs a sister to take her down a peg or two.
Her favorite thing to do is to snap her fingers to get the children’s attention. I have no idea where she gets that from. 