So very demanding

Uma, Kieran, and I were playing after I got home from work. Out of nowhere, Kieran sat up, looked right at me, and said very clearly, "Ba." Now, he's been saying "ba" for ball for a little while now. Just saying it is getting to be unremarkable. He's also said "Mmmmba" and "Mama" and "ba ba" (bye bye) and even "Dada" a couple of times. Those times were different. They were either mindless repetition, a response to a prompt, or simple labelling things he saw. This time, there was no ball to label, and we hadn't seen any balls for a little while. We were just playing, and Kieran got the idea in his head that he wanted a ball, so he asked for one. And he was quite pleased when Uma got it for him.