Our Daughter says “Yes”!
Jun 30th, 2008 by susan
This may not be very monumental for those of you without children, but to my husband and I this is a MAJOR achievement for our two-year-old! I cannot believe it is not listed on all of those “developmental milestone” charts! We have been waiting for MONTHS to hear anything in the affirmative from our daughter (“yes”, “yeah”, “ok”, “sure”, “yep”, “yup”– ANYTHING, we are not picky!) after what seems like eons worth of “No, no, no!”.
(You might wonder what our daughter did say when she wanted something like ice cream, candy, carousel ride, etc….. She would just echo it back to us: Us: “would you like some ice cream?” Keilani: “Ice cream?”. ARGH!)
As all of her sweet little friends ran around happily playing and saying all kinds of wonderful affirmatives to their parents we were beginning to wonder if she would EVER say something positive! But then it finally happened! This morning I asked her if she would like some “people” (a Japanese treat called Kokeshi Dolls that are wrapped up to look like little people) and not only did I get a “yes”…..(drumroll, please….)…… I got a “yes, PLEASE”! Wow. My heart is melting.
