Sentence Explosion

This week out of nowhere it seems that Teah understands the concept of the sentence. Not just putting words together, but subject and verb w/ connectors (I'm sure that's not an appropriate English term :). She has said:

Here I come
I need a hat
Daddy I'm going to throw Elmo
Mommy I have a book

Of course probably only Robert and I could decipher the sentences to actually be the things above, but she definitely is saying them! She says so many new words everyday that I can't even keep track anymore.

One added off subject thought: Teah counted to ten yesterday totally out of the blue. She has repeated a few of the numbers after I've said them before, but never even attempted to count. Usually when I'd ask her to count she'd say "A B" - not really understanding the difference between the alphabet and counting I guess. Well, yesterday at dinnertime she had a bowl of peach pieces. She had dumped them all out and she put one back in the bowl - her usual dump then put them all back before I eat them. Well, she put the second one in and said "two peach". I was shocked. She put another one in and I asked how many she had - she said "thee". She continued to answer me when I'd ask how many she had all the way up to ten! Robert and I were just looking at her in amazement like "where did you learn that and since when can you count?"!

Guess what Teah did?!

She went pee on the potty!

I was upstairs when I heard her wake up from her nap. I decided to go in and get her and I noticed that her diaper wasn't warm, so she probably hadn't peed yet. I sat her on the potty -mind you, I've done this numerous times before with no results - so I wasn't really expecting anything. I told her to go pee and we read a book. Then there was pee in the potty - I couldn't believe it! I read another book and she kept pointing down to the potty and saying "pee". Of course I praised her like it was the best thing she had ever done.

All evening I would ask her what she did in the potty today and she would say, "pee. yea" and clap her hands :) Well, I thought this was a one-time fluke. At bathtime I had to go to the bathroom myself and I had to take her diaper off to put her in the tub, so I figured we'd set on our potties together. She pointed at the potty as if she expected her pee to still be in there. I told her it was all gone and she had to make more pee. Well, she sat down and peed again! Pretty cool.