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eyelessgame) wrote2003-09-08 09:25 am
eyelessgame) wrote2003-09-08 09:25 am
Imtellectual development
Josh pointed and pulled, indicating he wanted juice from the fridge. "Okay, okay, I'm getting it." I pull out the juice, bring it to the counter, grab one of his spillproof sippy cups.
"No!" he tells me. "No! Cup!" Wow. He really said "cup". New word.
He's not finished yet. "Awanna cup!" I'm boggled -- diction may be a bit vague even for a two-year-old, but that was a real sentence.
So I pour him a bit of juice in a cup and he eagerly goes to his high chair. Context: normally, when we give him a real cup, he gets only a swallow or two at a time, and the balance of the juice or milk is in a second cup on the table, away from his high chair, to refill as needed. But I didn't pour the second cup yet.
He looks at the cup and the juice. "Nother cup!"
"Did you say "another cup?" Him: "Yeah!"
I've been saying all along I think he's been speaking in sentences, and he just has unclear diction. We'll see if more starts to clear up this way over the next few weeks.
Speaking of a few weeks, Katie has suddenly made a leap, thanks to the marvel that is her kindergarten teacher. "Ccccc... (pause) Uhhhhh... (pause) Llllll... (pause) Uhhh.... (pause) Rrrrrr. Ccccccuuuuulllluuuurrr. Color!" Without help. Two weeks ago she couldn't put a two-letter word together even if she knew both sounds.
Her biggest difficulty at the moment is with the letter H, since she pronounces it 'huh'. So "he" is still "huh-ee" and she doesn't recognize it. She's also listening to, but not yet using independently, the rules Robert helpfully informs her of -- "the E on the end doesn't get sounded, it makes the vowel before it say its name. Except the letter R, because R is so strong and big that the other vowel can't see the E."
And on the topic of Robert: "Hey, Robert. I'm making two boxes of this stuffing mix. One box says to use one and two-thirds cups of water. How much water do I need to make two boxes?" Promptly: "Three and one third cups." (blink) "How did you get the answer so fast?" "Well, one and one are two, and two thirds and two thirds is four thirds, and that's more than one, it's one more third." And he was telling me what would happen on the next page of Harry Potter more or less through the whole evenings' reading, because he'd read and memorized it the day before.
"No!" he tells me. "No! Cup!" Wow. He really said "cup". New word.
He's not finished yet. "Awanna cup!" I'm boggled -- diction may be a bit vague even for a two-year-old, but that was a real sentence.
So I pour him a bit of juice in a cup and he eagerly goes to his high chair. Context: normally, when we give him a real cup, he gets only a swallow or two at a time, and the balance of the juice or milk is in a second cup on the table, away from his high chair, to refill as needed. But I didn't pour the second cup yet.
He looks at the cup and the juice. "Nother cup!"
"Did you say "another cup?" Him: "Yeah!"
I've been saying all along I think he's been speaking in sentences, and he just has unclear diction. We'll see if more starts to clear up this way over the next few weeks.
Speaking of a few weeks, Katie has suddenly made a leap, thanks to the marvel that is her kindergarten teacher. "Ccccc... (pause) Uhhhhh... (pause) Llllll... (pause) Uhhh.... (pause) Rrrrrr. Ccccccuuuuulllluuuurrr. Color!" Without help. Two weeks ago she couldn't put a two-letter word together even if she knew both sounds.
Her biggest difficulty at the moment is with the letter H, since she pronounces it 'huh'. So "he" is still "huh-ee" and she doesn't recognize it. She's also listening to, but not yet using independently, the rules Robert helpfully informs her of -- "the E on the end doesn't get sounded, it makes the vowel before it say its name. Except the letter R, because R is so strong and big that the other vowel can't see the E."
And on the topic of Robert: "Hey, Robert. I'm making two boxes of this stuffing mix. One box says to use one and two-thirds cups of water. How much water do I need to make two boxes?" Promptly: "Three and one third cups." (blink) "How did you get the answer so fast?" "Well, one and one are two, and two thirds and two thirds is four thirds, and that's more than one, it's one more third." And he was telling me what would happen on the next page of Harry Potter more or less through the whole evenings' reading, because he'd read and memorized it the day before.