It's been an awesome summer. Rachel has been very interactive and happy, so we've just enjoyed her. She's eating and talking and playing in ways she hasn't for years, so I'm very grateful.
I love it when she learns new words. It's really difficult to teach new words to her because that requires that she is mentally on the same page as the person teaching her, and it's hard to get her there. Nouns are easiest because I can show her a picture, or the actual item. I can tell her what it is, and eventually she'll get it. Adverbs and adjectives are a bit harder. Frequently she picks up new words on her own. Sometimes she gets it right, and sometimes not so much.
The other day it was raining fairly hard and we were out in it. When we got back I said something about being "soaking wet." She really liked that, and used "soaking wet" a lot over the next little while. Then, when she had that down, she decided to expand her use of "soaking." When we were wiping off the table after dinner she said the table was "soaking dirty." Then, she was "soaking tired." Later, she was "soaking hungry." We have now added "soaking cold," "soaking hot," "soaking sure," "soaking small," and her brother is "soaking tall." There have been more, and I'm a little frustrated I can't remember them right now. I haven't been able to get her to understand that "soaking" doesn't mean "very," and, to be perfectly honest, it's so cute I hesitate to have her change.
Well, it's "soaking late" and we're all "soaking tired" and her dad and brothers are going to hike to the top of a mountain tomorrow so I'm "soaking sure" that we'd best go to bed.
