But this just warms my heart. 
The baby's first word (besides Dada and Mama) was Kitty. The next was dog; which still comes out "Dahhh" more than anything; but I can tell that is what she is trying to say.
She never met my dog Tasha; who passed last November while I was pregnant with her. I'd had Tasha since I was 13 (she lived with my parents). Recently I was looking through an old thumb drive and found this old desktop I used to have at work, so I put it up on my computer here:
Whenever the baby sees this she gets SUPER excited and will often say dog. She's around another dog at my parent's and at her god-mom's; and sees them in her books and on some of her videos. But she doesn't get as excited as she does when she sees Tasha. Now the boarder around the picture might help or something; but I know she's focused on Tasha since she says dog so much when she sees it.
I was really sad when Tasha passed. She'd been sickly and weak for so long; but honestly she looked pretty good right till the day she passed. She'd looked worse before. So it was unexpected in a way. But now my little one seems to have some kind of connection or at least a special affection for a picture of a dog she never saw in person. Maybe she remembers me being with Tasha; like they know the sound of the voice of the people around them before they are born. I don't really know; and I don't really care what the explanation is; I'm just glad for it.
The baby's first word (besides Dada and Mama) was Kitty. The next was dog; which still comes out "Dahhh" more than anything; but I can tell that is what she is trying to say.
She never met my dog Tasha; who passed last November while I was pregnant with her. I'd had Tasha since I was 13 (she lived with my parents). Recently I was looking through an old thumb drive and found this old desktop I used to have at work, so I put it up on my computer here:
Whenever the baby sees this she gets SUPER excited and will often say dog. She's around another dog at my parent's and at her god-mom's; and sees them in her books and on some of her videos. But she doesn't get as excited as she does when she sees Tasha. Now the boarder around the picture might help or something; but I know she's focused on Tasha since she says dog so much when she sees it.
I was really sad when Tasha passed. She'd been sickly and weak for so long; but honestly she looked pretty good right till the day she passed. She'd looked worse before. So it was unexpected in a way. But now my little one seems to have some kind of connection or at least a special affection for a picture of a dog she never saw in person. Maybe she remembers me being with Tasha; like they know the sound of the voice of the people around them before they are born. I don't really know; and I don't really care what the explanation is; I'm just glad for it.
