The End of an Era
Okay, maybe it’s not quite that dramatic, but yesterday Kate started saying her sister’s name “Sabrina” correctly for the first time, or at least very close “Sa-Bi-Na”. Prior to this she had been saying Damana, which started to sound like Donna when said fast. Her original name was Badamana. It was all very cute when it started at under 18 mos, and stems from the fact that Kate doesn’t enunciate S’s or F’s, usually substituting a hard C sound instead.
It didn’t start bothering me until recently, because Sabrina can hear the difference and once said “No Damana”. Also, Sabrina rarely says her own name unlike Kate who is always saying “K for Kate”, etc. and Zoe before her who spoke in the third person incessantly, Zoe this and Zoe that. I started worrying that Sabrina’s lack of name recital came from confusion with having her closest sister call her something else.
Fortunately the worry is ending because Kate is now saying it unprompted, and Sabrina seems to like it. Kate is also starting to say Zoe instead of Goe, and saying S on a range of words.
