New Words, a blessing and a curse!
Lately is seems my daughter (21months old) is learning new words at an alarming rate. She tries to repeat nearly everything she hears now and the scary thing is she actually understands what most of it means. It’s amazing listening to her say new things like dragon and movie. Her vocabulary in the last couple months has probably tripled and is showing no signs of slowing down at all!
My wife and I have taught her all sorts of body parts, regular household items and have even started teaching her to count. Currently her highest number is three! All of this is really impressive and brings us great happiness to see her learning so easily. It makes certain things easier too since she’s able to communicate her needs and thoughts to us fairly easily. She’ll come over and say “food please” or drink please” or perhaps it’ll be “more food”. It might even be “watch Elmo!”, her new favorite show that she can never seem to get enough of!
The bad part comes when she uses the word NO! Or lets us know that she’s “done done” eating after only a couple bites of her dinner. Like the title implies, new words and the understanding of their meaning are both a blessing and a curse! Because now she can very easily let us know that she intends to not stop doing something or verbally object to nap/bed time.
Of course my Mother thinks it’s hilarious that our daughter is as strong willed as I was when I was her age. Strong willed is GOOD and so is the new vocabulary, we just have our work cut out for us even more so now. The terrible twos, with any luck won’t be so terrible as long as we can get her focusing that mind of hers!
Pssst…. you haven’t written a blog in over a week….