Alexander said his first, and most important word: mama, exactly one month ago today. Since then, I’ve been coaching him to say another, almost equally important word: papa, but he’s been resistant… he’d make all kinds of noises, sometimes even resembling complete and elaborate sentences, spoken in some secret language, but nothing that would even remotely sound like p-a-p-a. Now we know that he must have been timing it just right, so that he would surprise me a month to the day after he made his mama so happy. I came home from work, and Lena told me that earlier in the evening, San’kin finally said “papa”! Of course, I was a bit suspicious and really wanted to hear it for myself. Later that evening, he did say it couple more times, though the words didn’t sound 100% like “papa”, but pretty close… can we count it?
Edited on October 17: the next day, on Saturday, October 13, and over the subsequent few days, San’kin said p-a-p-a many, many, many times, and said it clearly, without a hint of a doubt. That’s my boy!