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rivendellrose) wrote2021-05-16 12:58 pm
rivendellrose) wrote2021-05-16 12:58 pm
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This weekend was The Boy's birthday, so he took some time off on Friday and had a nice lunch and a walk and bought himself a used game console he'd been wanting, and then Saturday we made char siu bao with the new bamboo steamer my mom got him and watched Clue after L was in bed, and today we took L to the aquarium. He was very excited and had a lot of fun and completely tired himself out.
L still isn't much of a talker, but he says and does a lot of things that make it clear he's paying attention and getting things, like today after the aquarium The Boy was reading him a book before dinner, and he started going "sssss" after pointing to a butterfly, and we realized he was trying to say "whisper whisper" as in "the soft, soft whisper of a butterfly" like in another of his books that The Boy had referred to a few minutes before. And he's (generally) pretty good at following instructions (you know -- when he wants to). And he plays little verbal jokes, like every time I say "Hold your horses," he says "Neigh neigh." So we know he gets stuff. He just doesn't want to really talk yet.
He's signed up for the two mornings a week that the two-year-olds group at the local preschool co-op meets, starting this fall, and he'll be one of the youngest kids in the group because their cut-off is a little over two months after his birthday, so I feel confident that being around bigger kids and adults who don't know all of his cues will push him to actually start using words rather than just clearly knowing them. So I should probably just enjoy the last six months or so of not having a toddler who's talking all the time, I figure.
Other news, let's see... week after this we get our 2nd vaccines, so that's great! I'm still occasionally twiddling with a novel, although mostly not because, well, toddler and work. And I've been working on Japanese on Duolingo, currently on an 82 day streak, so that's nice.
L still isn't much of a talker, but he says and does a lot of things that make it clear he's paying attention and getting things, like today after the aquarium The Boy was reading him a book before dinner, and he started going "sssss" after pointing to a butterfly, and we realized he was trying to say "whisper whisper" as in "the soft, soft whisper of a butterfly" like in another of his books that The Boy had referred to a few minutes before. And he's (generally) pretty good at following instructions (you know -- when he wants to). And he plays little verbal jokes, like every time I say "Hold your horses," he says "Neigh neigh." So we know he gets stuff. He just doesn't want to really talk yet.
He's signed up for the two mornings a week that the two-year-olds group at the local preschool co-op meets, starting this fall, and he'll be one of the youngest kids in the group because their cut-off is a little over two months after his birthday, so I feel confident that being around bigger kids and adults who don't know all of his cues will push him to actually start using words rather than just clearly knowing them. So I should probably just enjoy the last six months or so of not having a toddler who's talking all the time, I figure.
Other news, let's see... week after this we get our 2nd vaccines, so that's great! I'm still occasionally twiddling with a novel, although mostly not because, well, toddler and work. And I've been working on Japanese on Duolingo, currently on an 82 day streak, so that's nice.
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