Manners

Elise is learning how to change the volume of her voice depending on the situation.  When she is supposed to be sleeping, she whispers, "hi".  When she wants to say hi to someone from a distance, she yells "hiiii!".  It's amazing how their little brains develop to know how to do this.

She is really good at saying "thank you" and will keep repeating it until you say "you're welcome".

Her vocabulary is really expanding but now it's at the point where I don't understand what she is saying and she gets frustrated.  For most words, she can only say the first sound.  So for example, the word "bba" refers to bath, ball, bread, brush, and maybe a few others.  Example conversation:

Elise: Bba
Me: ball?
Elise: No.  Bba.
Me: bread?
Elise: No.  Bba.
Me: You want to take a bath?
Elise: No.  Bba! (getting frustrated)
Me: Brush?
Elise:  Yeah!  Bbah!
Me: OK, you want to brush your hair?
Elise: Yeah!  Yeah!  (smiling)