Indulgent motherly post
Daisy=17 months
Daisy has invented a game and a joke (sort of). It harkens back to her swimming class, in which one of the activities involved sitting the babies on the pool ledge, chanting "Humpty Dumpty," and then saying, "1, 2, 3...splash!" (and splashing them into the pool). A few days ago, Daisy started sitting her rubber ducky on the tub faucet and saying a version of Humpty Dumpty, culminating in the duck splashing into the pool. I *think* it's fair to say this is the first real game she invented, involving a character (the duck). (Well, a possible precursor was an activity in which various tub items were put in and out of cups, and then went "fwimming.")
But now she has several variations on the Humpty Dumpty game. Today I asked her to do a Humpty for me, and she thought it was hilarious to say, "Humpty Dumpty had a duck!" She said it several times, crystal clear--unfortunately, she is no longer saying "Humpy Dumpy," but is now inserting the appropriate "ts." Yesterday she thought it was funny to say, "Humpy Dumpy...put it up there!" and put the duck on the faucet. It's interesting to me that I know she knows the right words to say, and is having a sort of joke out of inserting unexpected words.
Daisy often now tries to use multiple words together, instead of just one. She is saying what sound like sentences frequently, but often we can only understand a word or two of them. Or she'll try for a long sentence (from a song or nursery rhyme), but leave out a bunch of words. So she'll say "Noble pinces bow when came" (for "Noble kings and princes would bow whenever they came" in "Puff the Magic Dragon"). She does have a pretty good variety of little sentences and phrases going, too, including "out the window," "hold hands," and "get up," and she has some longer words now, too; today she said "macaroni," as clear as could be. She also knows "windmill," we learned--and "keppe" (head). She's got a variety of head-related words. When she falls down or bumps her head even slightly, she says, "Oh, conk!"
And I'm glad to report that she no longer thinks overhead lights are the sun, although lately she calls houses "barns." Well, we are all animals, after all.
Daisy has invented a game and a joke (sort of). It harkens back to her swimming class, in which one of the activities involved sitting the babies on the pool ledge, chanting "Humpty Dumpty," and then saying, "1, 2, 3...splash!" (and splashing them into the pool). A few days ago, Daisy started sitting her rubber ducky on the tub faucet and saying a version of Humpty Dumpty, culminating in the duck splashing into the pool. I *think* it's fair to say this is the first real game she invented, involving a character (the duck). (Well, a possible precursor was an activity in which various tub items were put in and out of cups, and then went "fwimming.")
But now she has several variations on the Humpty Dumpty game. Today I asked her to do a Humpty for me, and she thought it was hilarious to say, "Humpty Dumpty had a duck!" She said it several times, crystal clear--unfortunately, she is no longer saying "Humpy Dumpy," but is now inserting the appropriate "ts." Yesterday she thought it was funny to say, "Humpy Dumpy...put it up there!" and put the duck on the faucet. It's interesting to me that I know she knows the right words to say, and is having a sort of joke out of inserting unexpected words.
Daisy often now tries to use multiple words together, instead of just one. She is saying what sound like sentences frequently, but often we can only understand a word or two of them. Or she'll try for a long sentence (from a song or nursery rhyme), but leave out a bunch of words. So she'll say "Noble pinces bow when came" (for "Noble kings and princes would bow whenever they came" in "Puff the Magic Dragon"). She does have a pretty good variety of little sentences and phrases going, too, including "out the window," "hold hands," and "get up," and she has some longer words now, too; today she said "macaroni," as clear as could be. She also knows "windmill," we learned--and "keppe" (head). She's got a variety of head-related words. When she falls down or bumps her head even slightly, she says, "Oh, conk!"
And I'm glad to report that she no longer thinks overhead lights are the sun, although lately she calls houses "barns." Well, we are all animals, after all.
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