I think all parents remember the ways the their kids learn to talk and the funny mispronunciations and ridiculous things that kids call thing - Lucas used to call Lilies 'willy flowers' which cracked Kayleigh up so much that she had him repeating it again and again.
Kayleigh had two things which we remember clearly from when she learnt to talk. Her first word was, of course 'Daddy' followed by 'Mum'. It was the accent that she used on Daddy that was most noticeable, even to strangers. Kayleigh said 'Daddy' with an English accent (Terence is from England) so it came out more like 'Da-deeeeee' Which was very cute and I think Terence really like it like that. Over time, and with interaction with other people and more vocabulary, Kayleigh lost the accent on 'Daddy'.
The other word that we remember is the word 'bottle'. Kayleigh used a bottle for feeding from about 6 months to 18 months old. When she was thirsty she would asked for a bottle, but she didn't pronounce it properly, she would said 'Brrrrrrrrrr-tle'. She would have been older than 2 before she stopped saying it like that. Other people didn't understand her when she asked for a drink like that but we knew what she meant. It was so cute.
I miss her.
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