adventures in auntying

My niece is 11 months old and she can already say "Eed" or "Eedit" if she wants to have a book read to her, usually accompanied by the flapping of said book in the face of the nearest adult. If this fails to achieve the desired result, she will go over to her book box and say, "Eedaboo", and of course, at 11 months, she has no idea that there are three separate words there, but she does, nonetheless, know that "Do you want to read a book?" is the sound human beings make when she goes to her book box, so that she also, when she goes to her book box, says "Eedaboo", so that we will know she wants to read a book.

Bright baby is bright.