I have 15 books on hold at my library. Only problem? I'm not first in line for any of them!! So out of the 15 books I want to read, none are available! So upsetting. I'm book bored.
Whatever, moving on. My daughter is adorable. When you go in her room first thing in the morning, this is what she does:
She just wants to hand you her 3 blankets and 4 peluches. EVERY DAY. She's like "Thanks for coming to see me today. I will be playing with this, and this and this. Please carry it for me. That will do."
(The best part of that video is her hair sticking up on the side. Freaking awesome)
Also, she tries to put a diaper on the osito. Marcelo saw it the first time on Tuesday. My child is amazingly cute. She lays it down, on the ground or the couch, lays out the diaper, and wraps it around. ARRGH!! Her cuteness makes me want to stab myself! I'm trying to get a video of it too. But she has a radar so she'll stop immediately when she sees you try to get it on camera.
And finally, she's basically a mute. I mean she babbles all the time, but no words at all. NOTHING. She's even regressed and is no longer saying "Raya" or "gracias" or "mama". She's totally a mute. She clearly understands me. I can ask for something by name, and she will pick it out of a group of things and bring it to me. So she understands, but chooses not to talk.
Sometimes she communicates in other ways. When she wants to go outside, she brings me my shoes, her shoes, and then my pants. (yes, I'm usually pants-less around the house) She's clearly stating she wants to go outside and walk with Raya. So communication is very non-verbal. Lots of pointing and bringing of things. And when she wants me to sing "Dos Manitos" she waves her fingers in a certain way.
But seriously? 16 months and no words? When should I start to see a specialist about this?
Or this:
I don't think it's good when your child prefers spinning to eating cake batter off a beater. There is something wrong with her mind if that's the case.
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Book Bored
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It's so hard to know what is "normal." Owen started talking at 10 months. Thankfully he wasn't my second child or I would have freaked. At the age of 2 gavin was saying "uh-oh," "oh no," and "dada." Not much else. He slowly picked more things up but I was getting concerned. His doctor said that he understands and follows directions and that is a good sign. After he turned three he just started talking a ton. It was like he wanted to make sure he was doing it right or something! He hasn't shut up since. I wouldn't worry if it were me, but that's ridiculous to say because mommy's worry about everything. ;)
Collin was the same way. Our doctor recommended we put him in PEEP. Which is the provo early education program. So we did and we loved it. He probably would have been just fine without it but he did great and now talks a ton. But I know a lot of kids who don't say anything until 2 or so and then just break out into full sentences.
Didn't I hear somewhere that kids who are learning two languages simultaneously take longer to speak? Sound familiar to you? I wouldn't worry about her. I bet she's storing up all those Spanish and English words and will be using both before you know it.
Wow! Evi does EXACTLY what Katelyn used to do at that age and really until about a month or two ago (4 blankets, a towel, 6 stuffed animals, and 10 books). I'm sure there's something somewhere that says I totally should NOT be letting my kid sleep with that much stuff in her crib. Oh well. It makes her happy and it makes me laugh. Fun to see Evi doing it!
The whole learning two languages at once comment made by someone else sounds familiar to me. And Katelyn has been the same way right up until a couple months ago. It was gestures and whining for EVERYTHING. And now that she does talk more, you can barely understand a thing she says. And I worried because my nephew who lived in Germany the past year and who is only 4 months older was speaking WAY more than her, in complete sentences and in TWO languages. So I don't know. It's a mother's prerogative to worry, right? But it's probably one of those "to each kid, their own developmental timeline" type thing.
Ohmygosh, ohmygosh, Evi is so cute! Definitely stab-yourself cuteness levels, like you said.
If it makes you feel any better, my older brother Michael didn't start talking until he was three. Okay, that didn't make you feel better, did it? ;) Honestly, the only thing I would worry about at this point would be if you thought something was wrong with her hearing, which there obviously isn't. So, in my VERY expert opinion, everything is fine. :)
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