Raegan was following me. Babbling, she came crawling into the laundry room behind me. "Say MaMa." I said, smiling. Completely loving the fact that THIS baby said mama before dada. :)
Looking directly at me, she said "DaDa DaDa"
Aww. How cute you are. "Say MAMA. MAMA. You can do it. Ma-Ma."
"DADADADDADADADADA."
I'll spare you the repeated version. But I'll say this little exchange went on at least five more times. And each time, as if she knew exactly what she was doing, she'd say a very clear "Dada." Seemingly, taunting any request for my name.
Finally, my 5 year old, who's in the other room doing schoolwork, said in an exasperated tone of voice, "Uh, she doesn't know YOUR name." In the tone of "Please woman, would you just stop harrassing that poor child. She knows her daddy. And you, clearly, are not him."
No amount of debate with her would convince her that Raegan does know me and my name. Charis wasn't budging on her view of my identity to Raegan being irrelevant and unknown. Jet of course gloated...his brainwashing of all of our girls apparently complete. *tease*
So yep. It's official. Regardless of the fact that Raegan said my name first and that she spends about 90% of her time with me, she seems to have acquired selective amnesia concerning the identity of that random women who nurses her day and night. For she now only chants for her daddy.
That is, until she gets thirsty. *wry grin*
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Thats my girl... LOL ;)
Ah, our secret weapon--milk delivery. No one else will do when that time rolls around! :)
D- the only thing is that I'm getting ready to go away for a ladies' weekend. Jet has insisted that he keep Raegan. So we'll see how popular Daddy is then. ;)
It is just wrong how all of them say Da da first. Mine all did, no matter how much I tried to teach them to say Ma ma. Never worked.
So typical. All my kids chose daddy as the "choice parent" once they discovered there was more to life than snacks. He'd play with them, make them laugh, then once they'd start to cry he'd say "here, go back to Chow Wagon." CHOW WAGON? That sounds so...so... buffet. Now that they are older I'm good for other things too. Like cleaning their room, or driving them places. Yeah... I guess I've arrived. ~Karlie
I love it how little baby's even have the ability to tease. Hannah did the same thing to me. She did utter Mama first (so I claim) but Daddy is a favorite word.
Don't feel bad.... my youngest's first word was 'pida man' (spider man)... it was his ONLY word for months! he said da da once or twice, only. But FINALLY one day while watching 'pida man' he saw the tall robed woman holding a torch (the movie company's logo), pointed and said clearly MAMA! And strangley enough I had short hair then and oddly favored 'her'... after that moment he seemed to take mor notice of me :0) He has finally out grown spiderman! He is six now and prefers real heroes...
Hlda Rebecca
An interesting thing about children saying 'DaDa' It is universal. In China and other countries where Dad is not called Dad or daddy, children still say dada first! (In China dad is called BaBa) Kind takes the wind out of men's sails when they know that!! LOL
Never fear...they will always come back to us for FOOD in their hungry bellies!
Too cute that she was teasing you!
Does this mean that I should actually pray that our little Simone learns to say MaMa first so that my wife doesn't have any hidden resentment towards me? *grin*
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