More snapshots of what this girl is up to lately:
*She's been asking "Huh? What?" after everything we say. We've grown tired of repeating ourselves, and realized that it's not that she doesn't hear us. Once we started asking her "What did I say?" she's able to repeat back verbatim what she's heard. Perhaps this is her way to process new vocabulary or concepts? (Any suggestions on how to break this habit are welcome!)
*Her sentences are becoming much more complex. Instead of saying "Ellie hand dirty," she now says, "My hands are dirty, Mommy." She's using 7-8 word sentences and pretty much blows me away every day with her conversations.
*She loves to sings her ABC's and can pretty much sing them on her own. She can identify an "E" for Ellie.
*She can count to 13 (often skipping 8) and her new way of asking for more is to say "four, five, six, seven?"
*In the car she's been asking "Where did --------- go (Trader Joe's, Daddy, church, motorcycle, etc.)? "
*This girl still LOVES to eat. She asks for snacks constantly! Some of her recent favorites are almonds & cranberries, peanuts, grapes, strawberries, and "moo-vees" (smoothies). Plain, European-style yogurt is still her all-time favorite thing to eat. She eats her dinners pretty well, but we do sometimes have to bribe her bite-by-bite with something like bread or grapes.
*She's discovered running, jumping, and is getting more and more confident doing up/down steps independently.
*She likes to use a pen and draw on the back of junk mail envelopes that we use as scrap paper. She says, "I color."
*Ellie is *mostly* potty-trained!!! She rarely has an accident for #1, and accidents for #2 are becoming less and less frequent. Last week I dropped the diaper during naps and her overnight diapers are dry about 1/4 of the time. While I still ask her if she has to go, she's starting to tell us much more often now, and when she says she doesn't have to go, she really doesn't. Yeah!!!
*Current favorite night-time song is "Come Thou Fount". She calls it "water fountain". It's so sweet to listen to her try to whisper-sing along in my ear while I'm holding her during our little bedtime routine. She knows many of the words now. I also discovered that she knows the words to "Jesus Loves Me". I heard her singing it during a time-out yesterday (hee hee)!
*She is such a sweet big sister to Hudson. Sometimes, as expected, she gets a little carried away and is too rough with him (he's already got a scar from her scratching him), but she has definitely included him in the family, often asking as soon as she wakes up, "Where's Hudson?"
Is she cute, or what?! I love this kid!!
1 comment:
Hey A! Well, you asked for input, so here goes :) I imagine she's asking you to repeat statements as part of her language-acquisition process. She wants to hear it again. But as you noted, she doesn't really NEED to hear it. And with our kids, later I realized it became a laziness thing -- they'd ask me to repeat myself just out of habit, or perhaps to give themselves more time in the conversation before they had to answer. It just became a bad habit, and one they didn't realize they were doing, so we had to break them of it, by calling their attention to it. But they were much older than Ellie. I think asking her to repeat what you said is a really good idea. It supports her language skills, and can be like a little game b/t you.
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