She also recently started to say, "Mama, papa," which on paper looks really arbitrary, but it is the way she is saying it that makes us laugh. In one of the Dora episodes there is a penguin which wants to go home to the South Pole to its, "Mama, Papa." Being Dora, the penguin says it in a Spanish sort of way and Grace says it exactly like the penguin, kind of like, "Mamaah, papaah." Today she extended it to, "Mamaah, papaah, aunty." She has also started counting the stars in Spanish.

It is her ability to copy that is interesting. She is now really good and really fast at copying words, and there is often an echo in the room while we're having a conversation. It is something that she didn't do at the "normal" time, and yet another sign of how much her speech has improved.