It's no secret that Eleri is a wee bit less verbal than Clio. In fact, we were just watching old videos on this blog last night, and were reminded that when Clio was just one month older than Eleri is now, she could identify and say the names for all the colors of the rainbow. When she was much younger than Eleri is now, she could tell us what she wanted, like in the video where she asks for strawberries, or the one where her desire for pizza is made clearly known.
One of the problems with comparison is that we sometimes fail to celebrate advances that a second child makes on her own timeframe. At our board meeting on Tuesday, we were talking about the need for each board member to make a financial contribution to the organization that is personally significant: it takes the external comparison out of the equation. So today I'll update the blog with Eleri's recent language explosion. Small fireworks:
Signs:
Eat
Milk
More
Words:
Apple
Baby
Bath (pronounced Ba)
Beans (pronounced Bees)
Bus
Cheeks
Daddy
Doggie
Down (pronounced Dow, with a whole lot of pointing)
Ducky
Eyes
Hi
Hot (pronounced ot! ot! ot! along with some waving/shaking hands)
House
Ice
Keys
Milk (pronounced Mmmmi, along with the sign)
Mommy
Moon
More (pronounced Mmmmo, along with the sign)
Owl
This (used generally, but also used to indicate Clio)
What's This
What's That
I want this
Noises:
Hoo Hoo Hoo (monkey)
Moo (pronounced like a real cow: mmmmmmm)
and... squirrell noises (click click click click click)
I think that last one is the most personally significant to Eleri.
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