We have worked hard to encourage Sage to be vocal. My mother insisted that I recite old english nursery rhymes to her every morning. At daycare they sing to her. And for many months she had been making those cute little baby sounds. But today, a week before she turns 6 months, I heard something unmistakably - which I tried to ignore and refused to believe - until this evening I could deny it no longer. A word which has barely been spoken in our house. DADA...... Dada ... Bad Bada. How could this be! I keep repeating MaMa Mama or Bebe Bebe - but all she wants to say is DaDA - and she does't have one! Hope I haven't screwed up her life too badly! The good news is she doesn't look too sad when she says it! At the moment I am laughing - but who knows - soon I could cry!
she's so cute!!!
ReplyDeletewe are all about the dada over here, too!
I say get a teddy bear and start calling it dada. Then she'll have a dada and it won't be so bad when she says it.
ReplyDeleteShe is getting so big and SO cute!
ReplyDeleteI'm pretty sure that most kids go through the dada phase - it's just sounds and not actually saying daddy. I swear. :)
I've always heard that "dada" is a development milestone. It is an easier sound for babies to create than "mama" and so that is why it just comes out! Such a cute picture, I want her eyelashes!
ReplyDeleteElena's 1st "words" were Dada & Baba & she never had a bottle nor a Dad, lol! I agree with Ali that it must be a developmental milestone.
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