Speech development is an amazing thing. We are really enjoying watching the boys learn to talk. Ben is still our chatterbox and Ethan is quieter, but catching up.
Ethan is trying to catch up, and is starting to imitate Ben. Some of Ethan’s latest words are: mummy, mumma, go, boat, hole, car, dark, more, me me, no no, si (yes in spanish), up, water, cold, zazy (our cat), taxi, knee, beep beep, bubble, ta, again, and several more i can’t think of right now. He also make the following animal noises: moo, ssssss, quack, woof, meow, neigh, raaa. As I write it all down, I am amazed how many words he has! His vocabulary is growing every few days, and he gets so happy when he succeeds in communicating his needs/wants.
Ethan still loves to use his sign language. He communicates well with signing, and now uses the following signs: eat, drink, more, please, milk, dummy, cat, bird, duck, fish, car, helicopter, wheel, train, bed/tired, book, hot and ‘I’d like one too’….. I have a feeling there are more, but I can’t think of any right now.
Ben has more words than I can count…. hundreds! He comes out with new words every day. He is now starting to use descriptive words as well as objects, and he is putting words together.He’s saying things like "green car, hot water, far away, man fix roof, mummy’s car, eat please, music please, drink please and similar short phrases like this Today I gave Ben a mandarin. He put it in his mouth, pulled a funny face (like it was sour) and said “sour”. I was very impressed. It’s amazing that he can interpret what he is tasting and then use the appropriate word to describe it….. wow! .
Both boys have been able to point to body parts when asked for a while now. It’s usually “Where’s your nose?” etc, and they can point to the right part. Today I tried to reverse the game with Ben where I pointed to his (or my) body parts and asked him “what’s this called?” We had never played this game in this way before and I was surprised that he did so well. He was able to tell me the following body parts: hair, eyes, nose, mouth, teeth, arm, hand, fingers, belly, bottom, leg and foot. Ethan got knee. The only one that I asked that they didn’t get was toes. I have never heard Ben say most of those words before. It’s just amazing to me that he can just know them, and get them all right the first time!
Life is defiantly becoming easier as both our boys are now able to communicate to us when they want something. In the last few weeks our boys (especially Ben) have gone from whinging when they are hungry to actually calmly asking us for food or drink. It’s just brilliant!!
