Jabberwocky
L has always been a babbling, jabbering girl since she first started to make sounds, but lately her jabbering has started to make a lot more sense. She's starting to put together sentences, really. It's just started to happen in the last few days. It has been an interesting process for her and has happened differently than it did with N, if I'm remembering correctly. N was very meticulous about saying each word carefully, and gradually she built up to putting two words together, then three, etc. I'm not sure when it happened but I think it was between 18 and 20 months, thereabouts. L (at 18 months), on the other hand, has her single words, but she also has kept her baby jabbers... strings of nonsense that have the inflection of a sentence, but no real meaning. All of the sudden, though, the strings of jabber have actual words and meaning if you listen really carefully. Perhaps I'm the only one that can understand her, but I really think she's speaking in multiple-word sentences now.
We've lately converted to "family story time" before bed, where we all pile together on Mommy and Daddy's bed to read bedtime stories, and then we put the girls down to sleep at the same time. (This means L goes to bed later and N earlier, but so far it has worked out well and there hasn't been too much crankiness over it. Mommy and Daddy made the executive decision that bedtime needed to be a more streamlined process in preparation for the new baby.) So the other night, we were all reading a book called David Goes to School (it's from the No David series, which L has recently come to LOVE-- I think our mischievous little girl can really identify with David). As usual, L was jabbering throughout the story. At the point in the story where David gets in a food fight, she emitted a string of babbling, but when I went back and thought about it, I realized she had said "No no David, no throw tomato in hair!" (or in L-speak, "No no Devit, no fwow mato in hay!")
Perhaps my favorite thing, however, is her recently acquired skill of counting to five. She'll be sitting and playing with something, or looking at a book, and any time there are multiple images or objects that are the same, she will say, "wan... fooo... fweee... foh... five." Or, if she's counting something really quickly, she will say "foofoofweefohfive" in rapid succession. This is actually precisely the way N started counting and it brings back fun memories to hear her sister do the same thing.
We've lately converted to "family story time" before bed, where we all pile together on Mommy and Daddy's bed to read bedtime stories, and then we put the girls down to sleep at the same time. (This means L goes to bed later and N earlier, but so far it has worked out well and there hasn't been too much crankiness over it. Mommy and Daddy made the executive decision that bedtime needed to be a more streamlined process in preparation for the new baby.) So the other night, we were all reading a book called David Goes to School (it's from the No David series, which L has recently come to LOVE-- I think our mischievous little girl can really identify with David). As usual, L was jabbering throughout the story. At the point in the story where David gets in a food fight, she emitted a string of babbling, but when I went back and thought about it, I realized she had said "No no David, no throw tomato in hair!" (or in L-speak, "No no Devit, no fwow mato in hay!")
Perhaps my favorite thing, however, is her recently acquired skill of counting to five. She'll be sitting and playing with something, or looking at a book, and any time there are multiple images or objects that are the same, she will say, "wan... fooo... fweee... foh... five." Or, if she's counting something really quickly, she will say "foofoofweefohfive" in rapid succession. This is actually precisely the way N started counting and it brings back fun memories to hear her sister do the same thing.
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