Lost words

We're losing words. As she ages, she loses words that we loved to hear.

She has replaced aado with ah-va-dado.

We don't hear noo-noo any more. We used to love the song, Twinkle Twinkle Noo-noo Star, but she's replaced it with little. She used to be a "noo-noo girl," but Asher is a "Little, little baby."

Mee-mee and Bop-bop were two condiments with which she couldn't live. Now she has muhtahd and catup.

She is now Tahlia -- Aya is no more.

It's funny about these words. She would hear us say the words correctly all of the time, but, because she was unable to create the correct sounds, she said the words as best as she could. Sometimes, we would fall into Tahlia talk. I always wondered if when we used her words, for example to say, "Tahali, do you want a noo-noo more pasta?", if she had any idea about what we were talking. When we said noo-noo, did it sound like little to her? Or did she think we were making up some crazy new word that she had never heard because every time that she said noo-noo, she heard little.

Noo-noo does this matter now, for these words, to Aya, are quickly become extinct.