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| This gorgeous girl is 19 months! |
The language explosion continues! She's adding words to her vocabulary like crazy!
Her vocabulary includes:
Her vocabulary includes:
Wahh-beeee! (water)
Mine! (I'm not even sure where she learned this one. But she says it plenty!)
Close
Open
Up (Upoo)
Stuck
(leg stuck in crib, toy stuck in bag strap)
Carrot
Strawberry (Bawbay)
Bean
Pepper
Fork
Milk
(mee)
Bread
Banana (nana)
Apple (appoo)
TV (teebee)
Drop (Dropee)
Go go (Tells paaps "go go" to pull her legs and drag her on the bed)
Blanket (bink/pink/bank)
Daniel (dan young, din yull, din yum, dan yo)
Bunny (may may)
Thank you (dah coo)
Kiss - Mwa
Aw gone
Sock (sounds the sames as stuck)
Candy/cake/cookie (cuh cay)
Pacifier (by/fwy)
dog (doh)
Woof (woah woah)
Neigh (day)
And many more!
dog (doh)
Woof (woah woah)
Neigh (day)
And many more!
Other language stuff:
So not only is she rapidly adding words, now she's even doing two words phrases!! Such as more water (moah wahbee) or mama blanket. She also is doing some generalization with her words. All 4 legged animals get either a dog or horse sound. Both an apple and an orange are apples. All berries and melon are strawberry.
Motor/indepedence: She can put her own shoes and socks on with pretty good success. Not always on the right feet of course. We've also been letting her sit at the table for playing and snacks. She was climbing up on them so often we finally had to give in. And her body awareness developed enough to keep her reasonably safe from falling off. We still have her in the high chair for meals though. Trying to keep her contained a little longer so she focuses on eating.
She seems more interested in coloring and drawing than Claire was at this age. I don't know if that is because her fine motor skills are better or if she is exposed to it more because of Claire, or because she just wants to do what Claire is doing. My family also taught her "bones" which is like a fist bump. So she can do that when prompted.
Other stuff:
Ellie is totally in monkey see, monkey do mode. And of course Claire is usually the other monkey she's copying! She wants to do what Claire is doing so we have both of them sitting on the couch, covered with blankets watching TV. Or both sitting at the table coloring. She saw Jeff push on his puffed cheek to make a pffft noise and immediately did the same.
So not only is she rapidly adding words, now she's even doing two words phrases!! Such as more water (moah wahbee) or mama blanket. She also is doing some generalization with her words. All 4 legged animals get either a dog or horse sound. Both an apple and an orange are apples. All berries and melon are strawberry.
She seems more interested in coloring and drawing than Claire was at this age. I don't know if that is because her fine motor skills are better or if she is exposed to it more because of Claire, or because she just wants to do what Claire is doing. My family also taught her "bones" which is like a fist bump. So she can do that when prompted.
Other stuff:
Ellie is totally in monkey see, monkey do mode. And of course Claire is usually the other monkey she's copying! She wants to do what Claire is doing so we have both of them sitting on the couch, covered with blankets watching TV. Or both sitting at the table coloring. She saw Jeff push on his puffed cheek to make a pffft noise and immediately did the same.
She has a huge appetite. She finishes her own breakfast and then will climb up in Claire's chair and finish off her leftovers.
And tantrums. Oh the tantrums. I can handle your run of the mill, throw myself on the floor because I didn't get my way kind of tantrums. But the "nothing will please me" tantrums do me in. The ones where they scream for something so you try to hand it to them but then they scream that they don't want it so you take it back but then they scream for it again? Yeah, I hate those. And we are getting more of those, especially in the car.
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| Watch our grass, here I come! |
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| Airplane! |
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| Hi mama! |
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| Eating Claire's breakfast |
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| Neighborhood egg hunt ahead of Easter |
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| I still fit in this right? |
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| Playing on the big kid playground |
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| Drawing |
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| Playing at the mall |
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| Water play at the children's museum in Chattanooga |
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