Wishes

“Mommy, I wish I talked better,” Rowan said to me.

Hmm, how to handle this?  “What do you mean?”  I needed more information on where her mindset was before I answered her question.

“People can’t understand me,” she continued.

“Yes, sometimes it is hard to understand you, but you’re talking is becoming clearer and it will continue to get clearer as you get older.  People don’t always understand what the baby says, right?”

“Right.  My talking’s better now?”

“Yes, it’s better than it used to be when you were younger.”

She smiled.

My poor baby worried about how she sounds.  Though if she really, really worried she would keep her thumb out of her mouth when she was talking to people.