So Libby's speech in the last couple of week has been so interesting. It started with her adding the names of people when she'd say stuff: "Here ... Emma" [said as she hands something to Emma]. "Bye-bye ... Da-da."
And then a couple of days ago she started adding her own name to the narrations: "Peeeee-yyuuu ... Bibby" [said while I'm changing her dipe, and all I can say is that kid ain't lyin']. I love the cadence of how she says these narrations with a slight beat too long and a slightly different tone. I told Martin it sounds a lot like one of those fill-in-a-name-to-a-recording things (like Libby's Elmo Knows Your Name doll, which says "I like kitties, too ... LIBBY.") So she'll say things like, "Uh-oh ... BIBBY."
Then yesterday she jumped from adding names and started stringing ideas together. She's started with "more." "More ice" (ice cubes are her favorite food group). "More dog." "More airplane." (In case you were wondering, I'm excellent at conjuring up more airplanes.)
It's so exciting! I feel like we're on the beginning of the long march toward sentences. Way to go ... BIBBY.
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Hello to Libby and Emma, With Libby's vocabulary increasing daily it won't be long until you will be saying "Libby be quiet". Then when Emma begins to talk watch out Barron household. Quiet times are history. Ha. Fun to watch your kids develop. Crawl, walk and talk. What a wonderful world to get to explore and understand. Hope they does a better job with their world than we have done with ours. Lots of love to everyone. Grandma and Grandpa Kennedy.
They really are the same child, I think. Just this week, Rachel is exploding with two-word phrases--let go, right back, little piece, red bus. And, of course, Libby's socks. Any day now, these two will be having long secret chats under the new dining room table.
Ahhh... at this rate, 4-letter words are soon to follow! ;) (And it will be *SO* hard to keep from laughing and thereby positively reinforcing such language... just you wait) LOL
At age 3, and after hearing the chorus of I am the Eggman for the 1,000,000,000th time, I'm beginning to regret that Ben ever learned to speak at all.
WTG, Bibby! You're getting to be such a big girl!
Now the next step will be to teach her word-related games, such as Scramble or Scrabulous or even good old-fashioned Boggle.
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