Out of the mouths of babes

"ACE HOE" Charlotte blurts during our car ride home from Connecticut.
Dad: "She didn't just say that did she?"
Mom: "I think she was talking to you."
Dad: "Very nice dear. I told you not to use those words around her."
Mom laughing: "She is calling it as she sees it."
We quickly diverted Charlottes attention by singing Happy Birthday in the car (which is now one of her favorite songs, along with Row Your Boat and Ring Around the Rosie). We didn't think much more of the conversation until later in the evening after dinner.

Dad decided to take the family for some ice cream. We got it to go and when we returned home, we all sat down at the table to enjoy a Sunday on a Sunday. Charlotte had her own cup of black raspberry ice cream that she was furiously shoveling into her face.

"Yummmy" She said.
"You like the ice cream Charlotte? Can you say ice cream?"
"ICE HOE" she said intently then continued to shovel in the ice cream.
Mom and dad both look at each other. She wasn't saying "ACE HOE" earlier, she was saying ICE HOE which is ICE CREAM in Charlotte language. Thank God, dad was getting a complex thinking he was being called something else.

Charlotte's vocabulary has really grown over the past few weeks. There are still a lot of words that we can't understand, but we do our best to decipher what she is saying. Lately she has been on a kick saying "no way". Charlotte do you like to eat spiders, "NO WAY" she replies. Too funny.

Its amazing how you cross such a big milestone once your child is able to communicate with you.