Sunday, January 22, 2012
Words, words, words
Fiiiiinally, after waiting for months, our girl started spouting new words daily this past week or two. Yes, I had been reassured by the pediatrician, by Troy, by the grandmas, by my sisters-in-law, by my dear friend the linguistics professor, and just about everyone else that I didn't need to worry about her expressive language since her comprehension seemed fine. But I'm a mom first and foremost. So my primary job is to worry. My main only role in life is to worry. You can imagine my relief when the properly-used words came tumbling out of her mouth -- "apple, mouth, cheese, owl, Bible, light, more, coat, go, baby, ah-pa (Korean for daddy), um-ma (Korean for mommy), draw, boots, nose, eyes, hae-ba (Korean for do it)" etc. She already knew "hi, mommy, mama, daddy, dada, duck, car, truck, cracker, no, yeah, koh (Korean for nose) plus a handful of signs. This morning, we learned the downside of encouraging her speech when she wanted to talk during the reverent, quiet service.
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Wish I could record every word those little ones say because it's soooo cute! Glad she's finding her voice :)
Our third was the slowest to use words and look at her now!! I remember she learned the word "cow" at the beginning of a trip to NC and every moving animal in a field was a "cow"...and we didn't say it once it was for every single animal she could see as we went by them and for miles down the road...and it was spoken like "cow?" so every "cow" needed an answer by someone... Worry ceased, an order for more patience awoke!!
Well, so far, every fruit is an apple -- whether a pear or a real apple. She's kinda getting the animals by individual name, nothing consistent yet.
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