A few months ago, we had to do an "All About Me" poster for Cub's day care. It felt a little odd, like writing a personals ad for someone else. But we did it, and I may have gone a teeny bit overboard with the photos and descriptions, as compensation for not documenting his every move on this blog.
The poster came back a few weeks ago, and I'm glad I went overboard. It's hanging in the boys room, and we all like looking at it a bit. Without the benefit of all the photos, here's the summary of our 20.5 month son!
"Hi! My name is Sam. I was born in Hershey, PA. This is my family (immediate and grands only, as there's over 20 people if we start counting uncles and aunts and cousins). I love my big brother. I like to climb and hide. I like playing football, going outside and listening or dancing to music."
In the few months since that happened, I realized we could add another hobby to the list: coloring. It's more accurate to say "scribbling", and probably the MOST accurate to say "graffiti" since he writes over EVERYTHING. Really. Kaden's homework, cards people have sent us, newspapers, books, tables, the floor, the walls. Yes, plural: walls. While he will write/scribble/graffiti will any writing instrument he can find, he tends to prefer colored Sharpies. Yes, the permanent ones.
It's a bit disheartening to have a new masterpiece pop up before we're finished cleaning the last one off the wall. We have already moved all the pens and markers and crayons out of reach, but somehow there's always one escapee. Or perhaps his climbing comes in handy?
Also- in the few weeks since we wrote the post about his words, his vocab has exploded this past week. He's not quite stringing together sentences, even the 2 word kind, but he is great at understanding what we mean (go get the blue shirt). He's decent at making his wants known, if he's not in a meltdown that is, too. He likes to put on his shoes and point to the door, "Go? Go?"
He's also a great little parrot, repeating (or trying to) almost everything we say. Unless we're in church, when he just wants to talk loudly or cry. But that's another post. It's funny that he will also parrot animals (woof, woof) or other people we pass by (hello, baby). He's on the verge of all the fun preschool exploring, and it's good to see him growing in wonder and starting to master skills.
Showing posts with label talk. Show all posts
Showing posts with label talk. Show all posts
Monday, October 19, 2015
Friday, August 28, 2015
Vo-ka-BU-larry
The babe is getting older...and bigger... and more talkative.
This week, I was talking emphatically.
He stood next to me and imitated my tone and hand motion exactly.
Sigh.
A few weeks ago, I was lamenting his 'lack' of vocabulary. Then I started listing his words. They're not pronounced perfectly, but still. We got a decent list down, and then... it was like he knew I was counting! Because it just exploded. He can mimic almost any word (when he feels like it) but here's his most consistently used palabras:
Hi
Bye
Mama
Mooooommmmm
Dada
Bruh-bruh (brother)
Nana
Pop
Gran-ma
Kah-DEN (Kaden)
Yesh.
Go.
GO, GO, GO, GO!!
Peas (please)
Piz (peace) (at Mass)
Uh oh.
Done.
More
TA- DA !
Monday, December 14, 2009
Tidbits, Snatches and other Phrases
Hi again! Are you feeling as overwhelmed with this whole time-won't-ever-stop-and-let-me-catch-my-breath? I hope it's not just me.
As I spin my wheels out of control, the boy keeps growing. And talking, oh my! That little man can TALK. In the past week, he's been jabbering away *more* than usual: in the car, on the phone, to the TV, to his monkey, to the couch... you get the idea. In the past two days, he's also started echo-ing the exact phrase and tone that Jim and I use, as we're talking to each other and not the little 2 foot person. Like after Jim sneezed and said "excuse me", we hear a little voice from the floor "scoose ME". Other examples...
When picking up a phone (real, toy, or imaginary) and putting it to his ear: 'lo!
To strangers at a restaurant or store: HI!
When he hears keys jangle: bye! bye! with a little wave.
When he sees pictures of food, even if he's never had it, like SHRIMP on a commercial: MMMMM.
Any type of football symbol: helmet, ball, player, crowd- this can be TV, radio or just a picture: TACK-ELLLLL!
tonight in the bath, I heard him using the same phrase over and over again as he placed letters on the wall. Then I realized he was saying: ready, set, go! (place letter) (repeat).
If other people are laughing, even if he doesn't know why: the laugh is mimicked.
Maybe we should call him our little mockingbird?
As I spin my wheels out of control, the boy keeps growing. And talking, oh my! That little man can TALK. In the past week, he's been jabbering away *more* than usual: in the car, on the phone, to the TV, to his monkey, to the couch... you get the idea. In the past two days, he's also started echo-ing the exact phrase and tone that Jim and I use, as we're talking to each other and not the little 2 foot person. Like after Jim sneezed and said "excuse me", we hear a little voice from the floor "scoose ME". Other examples...
When picking up a phone (real, toy, or imaginary) and putting it to his ear: 'lo!
To strangers at a restaurant or store: HI!
When he hears keys jangle: bye! bye! with a little wave.
When he sees pictures of food, even if he's never had it, like SHRIMP on a commercial: MMMMM.
Any type of football symbol: helmet, ball, player, crowd- this can be TV, radio or just a picture: TACK-ELLLLL!
tonight in the bath, I heard him using the same phrase over and over again as he placed letters on the wall. Then I realized he was saying: ready, set, go! (place letter) (repeat).
If other people are laughing, even if he doesn't know why: the laugh is mimicked.
Maybe we should call him our little mockingbird?
Monday, September 7, 2009
Hi Thomas Door VannaClap Monkey Amen!
Well, hello there! It's been a while, hasn't it? We've been here, and doing normal things. Except for perhaps, being awfully reticent in most communicative forms. But you're not here for an essay on our responsibility to chat with our siblings, so let's get to the little guy, shall we?
Kade's personality is SO. MUCH. FUN. He is, as aptly put in a recent motherly poem, "22 pounds of pure joy." (Except he's officially only 20.5 lbs, but you get the idea.) (and yes, I actually met that deadline!) The wee world traveller is back at home, and not really in any routine, as he thinks perhaps one nap a day is plenty, but the parental units are refusing to consider this possibility. Hence the 7pm-nap-for-an-hour-then-wake-and-bath-and-sing-and-bedtime NEW routine happening this week...
What's really a lot of fun, though, is seeing and hearing him express himself verbally. We had worked on baby signs (oh so long ago) and the only thing that stuck so far is "more". It's used mostly for food. The kid takes after Jim's dad on this account, as he does not like others to eat alone. So it doesn't matter, for instance, if he ate his dinner at 5pm and JimDad sits down to eat at 6pm, there's Kaden with his "more" sign. If Nana or Ma try to take a bite or two of a little nightly fortification (aka 8pm brownies), he's there- putting one finger in the other palm: MORE. Was this the same babe we were worried wasn't eating enough? Good lord, what will the teenage years be like?
He has also started to RESPOND. To people, to toys, to the TV, to the windows... So a soundtrack of the last week would be something like this:
Kade walks into a room "HI" and flashes a big smile
... pushes a button on a Thomas book, listens to the train noise, then puts it down on the floor and yells "some-toddler-words-his-mom-can't-translate"
...bangs on the door when someone is, ah, "occupied" and yells NA! DA! MA! until he gets an answer
...when Wheel of Fortune is on, he pauses to watch, shouts out one or two syllables (BA), then claps with the crowd
... finds his birthday monkey, Bananas, and pushes its arm to hear "we love you kaden" and a bunch of his cousins' names. sometimes he just smiles, other times he repeats a name.
... when his "prayer bear" finishes its "now I lay me down to sleep", he echos the AMEN and then nods his head yes.
All this with mostly nonstop motion, as he loves to walk around and put things (like the remote) into other things (like the toliet). Or his sippy cup into the trash.... What will the next week bring?
Kade's personality is SO. MUCH. FUN. He is, as aptly put in a recent motherly poem, "22 pounds of pure joy." (Except he's officially only 20.5 lbs, but you get the idea.) (and yes, I actually met that deadline!) The wee world traveller is back at home, and not really in any routine, as he thinks perhaps one nap a day is plenty, but the parental units are refusing to consider this possibility. Hence the 7pm-nap-for-an-hour-then-wake-and-bath-and-sing-and-bedtime NEW routine happening this week...
What's really a lot of fun, though, is seeing and hearing him express himself verbally. We had worked on baby signs (oh so long ago) and the only thing that stuck so far is "more". It's used mostly for food. The kid takes after Jim's dad on this account, as he does not like others to eat alone. So it doesn't matter, for instance, if he ate his dinner at 5pm and JimDad sits down to eat at 6pm, there's Kaden with his "more" sign. If Nana or Ma try to take a bite or two of a little nightly fortification (aka 8pm brownies), he's there- putting one finger in the other palm: MORE. Was this the same babe we were worried wasn't eating enough? Good lord, what will the teenage years be like?
He has also started to RESPOND. To people, to toys, to the TV, to the windows... So a soundtrack of the last week would be something like this:
Kade walks into a room "HI" and flashes a big smile
... pushes a button on a Thomas book, listens to the train noise, then puts it down on the floor and yells "some-toddler-words-his-mom-can't-translate"
...bangs on the door when someone is, ah, "occupied" and yells NA! DA! MA! until he gets an answer
...when Wheel of Fortune is on, he pauses to watch, shouts out one or two syllables (BA), then claps with the crowd
... finds his birthday monkey, Bananas, and pushes its arm to hear "we love you kaden" and a bunch of his cousins' names. sometimes he just smiles, other times he repeats a name.
... when his "prayer bear" finishes its "now I lay me down to sleep", he echos the AMEN and then nods his head yes.
All this with mostly nonstop motion, as he loves to walk around and put things (like the remote) into other things (like the toliet). Or his sippy cup into the trash.... What will the next week bring?
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