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If you've hung out with Dylan in the past couple months and have not, by your very presence, caused her to cower trembling in the corner, you have heard her babble on and on and ON in her very own language. I never realized kids continued to babble nonsensically up through her age, but it has recently become clear that she has actually been keeping up a running narration of all of our activities. As she learns more words she substitutes them into her commentary, so now every three words or so is an actual English word that someone who is not me might recognize as such. The tone and inflection sounds pretty much exactly the same whether she's saying her words or ours. She doesn't have a lot of verbs yet, but you can still usually catch her drift. She's also starting to pick up on more abstract ideas like "if" and "or" and can answer questions with actual answers. So suddenly we're verging on having actual conversations that make actual sense. Weird. Whatever, we're still talking about someone who thinks she can tickle her own armpits.