Saturday, August 30, 2008

Learning From My Own Words

Olivia is obviously having a language development week. Since last weekend she has said the following for the first time:

boy (she went to visit a friend of my Mum and walked straight in, went straight up to her son and said 'boy')
please (this one is a bit hit and miss at the moment and she only says it when she feels like it)
cake (she got this from the plastic play food as Mummy is far too puritanical to let her have much cake!)


bowl
spoon
These two stem from the fact that she is currently obsessed with cereal and would have nothing but breakfast all day if you let her. She gets a bowl and the cereal out of the cupboards but cannot reach to get a spoon from the drawer.

She has also learned the word 'no', which she uses A LOT but doesn't really seem to entirely get the hang of as, like she does with 'yes' she answers questions fairly randomly based on how she feels. We are amazed it has taken her so long to learn this word, considering how often she hears it :)

She has also learned 'bye' which she uses with gusto, shouting 'bye' at you at the top of her voice even if you are just going to the other side of the room to get something!

What she really needs to learn now is 'cup' because at the moment she just starts shouting 'uh, uh,uh,uh' until you give her a drink!

2 comments:

  1. Gage said "no" a lot (still does), but didn't get the hang of using "yes" as the opposite of no. He's almost 3 now, and finally has it down!

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  2. Gregory likes no as well. Funny that...

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