I get a lot of comments on how Lowly is extremely quiet. Granted, compared to WeeBee, most people are quiet, but they have a point. Most of the time she's perfectly content to chew on a toy and watch WeeBee cause mayhem. Occasionally she eggs him on by giggling. I wasn't particularly concerned about the limited babbling, because I have heard her do it - I just figured when she had something to say, she'd say it.
The other evening she was playing with her dollhouse on the floor, while I tried to convince WeeBee that it was time to change his diaper. He was rolling around on his bed and protesting, when I heard "Mummum," to my right. I didn't really notice, and continued negotiating with WeeBee, who was now flailing around like a dying cockroach. Then I heard it again, but much louder, "MUMMUM!"
At that point it clicked - that was Lowly talking. She had apparently tried to crawl towards one of the dolls and gotten stuck, unable to figure out how to sit back up again. She was glaring right at me with a look that clearly said, "Hey, stupid, you going to do something about this?"
The funniest part of the whole thing was that she didn't say "mummum" like a baby trying to figure out a new sound. I've heard her do that - a few weeks ago she decided 2am was the time to experiment saying "Fa! Fa! Fa!" She said it like an adult would, the first time normally, and the second time with the tone of "Hey! You! Wake up!" Apparently she's been paying more attention than I'd been giving her credit for. And even if she does look at me like I'm a moron, it's nice to be called Mummum again. That was WeeBee's name for me when he first started to talk, and I really wasn't expecting her to say the same thing.
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