Growing up oh so fast!

Since last week Nidhi has started qualifying objects when she refers to them. And so we have 'daddy towel' (no, we havent figured out the 'apostrophe s' part yet!), mummy shoes, nidhi shoes, and tanish (her local friend) cap.
Yesterday when we were reading a book about a mermaid and I asked if Nidhi had a tail like the mermaid, she said - "No"!
She counts from one to ten, but routinely misses seven, or mixes it with six :)
She sings several nursery rhymes, that are recognisable even to strangers (people remark about it on the bus and the train!).

I have several moments when I wish she wouldn't grow so fast, I feel like I am missing so much of her littlehood. AND I am at a stay-at-home mom, we are together practically 24x7x365, she even sleeps in our bed! But she is already combining words now, and soon she will be speaking in sentences and pronoucing words the proper way, and I am so going to miss her cute dialect and her baby pronunciations.

Of course there are moments when I wish she would just play with herself for a while so I can get some housework done but the wonderful times together more than make up for it. My best moments are when we huddle close together reading her favorite books over and over and over and over again.

Loud strange noises still bother us a lot, so the helicopter (or helicuppa) is still not a friend. I bought her a toy fish the other day and she calls it helicuppa, and actually they do kinda look the same, dont they :)

I've lost count of the number of words she says now but I am certain there are more than 50. Let me try listing as many as I can:mummy, daddy, amma, achacha, papa, ammama, aatee (aunty), uncke (uncle), cheta, chechi, baba (banana), maato (tomato), cadhet (carrot), oneng (orange), bothee(broccoli), potato, ice (rice), bed sticks (bread sticks), bidhet (biscuit), cheese, bed (bread), gaga (water), chair, bib, sofa, carpet, bath, tub, ball, baloo (balloon), cow, puppy, pussy cat, ayphant (elephant), capay (camel), tiger, beebaa (zebra), sheep, pig, cock-a-doodle-doo (yes that's how we identify the cockerel), chicken, duck, bee, butherthy (butterfly), annn (ant), horsey, birdie, hipopapapais (hippopotamus), airplane, helicuppa, wheeeee (for slide), potty, bed, waste, cap, coat, socks, shoes, towel, widtho (window), nappy, t-shirt, up, down, cup, feed, car, house, tissue, paper, ofees (office).