Oral Evolution

Today she sounded like a human. Well, she sounded like a screaming human before but today it sounded like she was actually saying something and that is a big step for someone looking for big steps. At first we lovingly called her a chipmunk because when she hiccupped (and she does it a lot) she really sounded like a chipmunk. For those of you who don’t know what chipmunks sound like you really need to spend more time in the nature or you could just google it and go bowling instead. Inevitably the chipmunk would become possessed and go straight into the “Devil’s chipmunk” mode, or so we lovingly called the sounds our daughter made.
The next stage was adorable snorting sounds that reminded us of Arnold from Green Acres. If some of our international audience (and I hear I have at least one – my mom) don’t know about Arnold, well, google is still going strong. BTW, can anyone guess in what movie I first learned about Arnold? Well, if you know me at all you can pretty much narrow it down to three potential candidates: Princess Bride, Pulp Fiction, and Snatch. I am sure you got it now (it was part of the discussion about what character traits are more important, cleanliness or personality. I hope I got the latter). And so she sounded like an adorable little piggy and although we suspected that it had something to do with the amount of dry mucous accumulated in her nasal passages we did not have the heart to tell her.
As days passed, she started being more alert for longer periods of time. Each and every one of those periods would still lead to the Devil’s Chipmunk, but now we had more time to get her swaddled and rocked so sometimes we just transitioned from alert to sleeping or feeding. However, today, while she was lounging in her bouncer in the most extravagant pose, looking all around with her big brown eyes, she made a new sound which actually sounded like a human, or at least humanoid. I did not quite get what she said but it was clear enough to trace it to the correct species. I wonder what will come next? Should I hide my credit cards?