In the last month, Rascal (now 17.5 months) has been going through several fazes with different favourite words. The one I want to tell you about is "stuck." It all started on a Sunday when she was riding her trike at the social cricket game Daddy was playing in. There was a lovely concrete area and then a grassy area.  She had just worked out the word "stuck" a few days before but it hadn't yet become an obsession. She would ride off the concrete onto the grass and call out "stuck!" to me sitting in my camping chair. I would call back "just push a bit harder" and she would, with all her might and then become "stuck!" again. I got up numerous times that afternoon to get her un"stuck" and didn't think much of it. 

Little did I know that "stuck" would haunt me for a week or more! We started the week with everything being "stuck." She couldn't open a book so it was "stuck." She couldn't move her foot because there was a teddy in the way (a teddy that weighed less than 200 grams...) so she was "stuck." She would come to a cord that crosses our hallway (temporarily) and couldn't walk over it (although she'd been walking over it for weeks) and so she was "stuck." Everything, and I mean everything, made her "stuck!" 

Thankfully in the days and weeks that have followed that faze, there have been others. We are currently in an "up" faze, which includes getting up (and down - though today I did hear her say "dow" when she wanted to get down so maybe we are about to enter a "down" faze...), the garage door going "up, up, up" and many other "up"s!  There has been the "trees" faze which involved yelling "trees" every time she saw the little collection of trees in pots on our alfresco waiting to be planted. It was accompanied by intense swaying which indicated that she wanted me to sing "The Trees are Gently Swaying" on repeat for at least an hour. There was, and still partially is, a "gone" faze going on where if she doesn't want something, especially in the food department, it is miraculously "gone" although it sits in front of us. There is also currently a "star" faze because all she can see is the star on the Christmas Tree not the actual tree itself. That always must be accompanied by "Twinkle, Twinkle" also on repeat. 

It is wonderful watching Rascal's language develop. She is going to be a chatterbox just like her mummy, I can tell. Looking forward to what other fazes we may have coming up. Hopefully none of them involve being stuck!

Libby :)