At 19 months of age, Mila's vocabulary is nothing short of crazypants. While she still generally uses screaming as her preferred method of getting her way, she is capable of speaking in sentences. Sentences!
Which, if it weren't for Alexis, I wouldn't have noticed.
Alexis was also an early talker, but I didn't acknowledge she was an early talker because IMPOSSIBLE. Looking at videos now, it's obvious that I was clueless back when Alexis was figuring out how to say all sorts of fun things. I didn't think real words were possible, so I just plain didn't hear them.
Hindsight being 20/20 sometimes works out for fixing the present, though. Realizing that Alexis was using real words means that I hear Mila's real words. They often still require a bit of translation, but she's really doing very good. "There's a Minion!" is "Der's a Min-en!" for example.
Minions are important in Mila's world, by the way. I think it's because they speak her language.
Anyway, Mila talking obviously leads to all sorts of warm fuzzy moments. Alexis spent weeks trying to teach her to say "I love you," for example. Which, the lessons were adorable. The day Mila started repeating the words was even more adorable. When she finally says them unprompted? I might fall over from the cuteness.
Yet. And yet the sentence Mila said today is going to be my favorite for a very long time. After a dinner complete with many of her favorite things, a few hugs, and lots of attention, Mila looked up, smiled, and said, "I happy."
Me too, kid. Me. Too.