Putting words together

Melina has learned so many new words lately that I can't even keep track. Now she's begun putting them together. Her very first sentence was "Old bobble." As in, "this milk tastes sour and I think it's been sitting around a lot time. How could you let me drink this?" Other memorable sentences include "kitty night-night," "daddy broken" (not sure exactly what that one means), "more quesadilla" and "play toys? Play wadu (water)?"

Her two great obsessions right now are playing with water in the sink (standing on a chair topped with a phone book - good thing she's coordinated) - and drawing on things, preferably with a felt pen. She seems very disappointed when she opens up the can of crayons and doesn't see any pens. She will write on ANYTHING and likes to try writing on different textures - Tupperware, walls, cat fur, wooden toys, etc. Luckily, they make washable ink felt pens these days. They *usually* come off.

She has also started learning words about concepts. The first one was "scary." She thought the pumpkin face on her old Halloween candy basket was scary. She also thought that my friend's poster of Jake the Alligator Man was scary, which it is. Then came "funny" (lots of things are funny) and today she's using "broken." Pretty much anything that doesn't work exactly the way she wants it to is broken, like a yellow crayon drawing on brown cardboard. You can't see much, so it must be broken. Or a pen that doesn't come apart like pens are supposed to do. Broken.