The Sweetest Sound

Lyla said her first complete and functional sentence today.

She grabbed her cup off the table, tried taking a drink from it (and yes I was watching her every move), it was empty.

Now here's where she usually drops the empty cup on the floor and goes to find another cup, and repeat until she finds water.

Today she kept the cup in her hand, walked over to me and handed me her cup, and looked at the cup, and then at me and said,

"I....want....water."

I immediately replied, "You want water? Of course you can have water! Let's go get some water!!"

She followed me to go fill her cup, and got distracted half way there by a toy camera, so I back tracked, trying to get her attention again, hoping she might say it again, but, she had already given me her want/need and just stood there waiting for me to fill her cup. Once her thirst was quenched, she dropped her cup as she remembered there were small pumpkins by the window to count and line up!

I text my mom and my sisters and Andy of course! I had to tell some one! Andy called later and I told him the whole scene as written out above, and of course I started to get all choked up. I mean, who wouldn't?!

I remember the excitement when Owen said his first sentence, it was something like "I see a turkey!" It was probably 2 years ago, and Noah, he said his first sentence a little less than a year ago, and I think it was, "I want more crackers." All were exciting, but this, this VERBAL communication is so amazing, I just can't believe she said it on her own!

I will never stop asking her how her day at school was, I will never stop asking her what she wants for lunch,  and everything inbetween, because one day, she WILL answer me back, I just know it.