Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Baby words while Daddy's away

Right now Travis is on a rotation in Appleton, an hour and a half away. He left Monday night and will be back Thursday night. Rotations are always great considering he can actually work away like a proper dentist. You mean it's possible to see 7 patients in one day (todays count)!? Of course, except in the dental school clinic. Only 2 generally there. Sherri (and Eric) say it quite well here.

When we talked to him on the phone tonight Carson had some choice words for him. He has long been repeating the sounds da da and ma ma and many others, but we don't know how many of them are really applied, and when he says them he usually just keeps saying them making it feel like he's just enjoying that sound rather than naming anything. But when talking to Travis and asked to say Da Da, he looked right at the phone and repeated it. Then repeated Ma Ma for us.

Later at the dinner table I was looking for a repeat performance but more specifically I was looking for "Avery." Many times it has appeared to me that Carson is yelling "A-ee" directly at his brother when trying to get his attention. Sure enough, at dinner, when asked to say "Avery" we heard a very clear "A-ee." What fun.

We miss you Daddy! Hurry home to us!

3 comments:

Mindy said...

That's great! How fun to listen to him start talking and actually mean something.

RaQuelle Willey said...

Oh that's exciting! Too bad Travis is on rotation! My Travis just did one last week and again next week! I think we may tag along this next time though.
Great Job Carson!

Anonymous said...

Way to go Carson. Make yourself heard!