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Tuesday, September 4, 2012

A vocabulary explosion!

Leaps and bounds.  That is the best way to describe the increase in the girls' vocabulary skills over the past 2 weeks.  Their development is literally growing exponentially each month.  One of these days they are just going to take off and start speaking in full sentences.  Seriously. They have started repeating everything that we say, verbatim.  Wow!  It sure makes you think about what you say when it comes right back at you from the mouth of a 2 year old! =)

In the last two weeks the girls have gone from using one (relatively advanced) word at a time (cupcake, opposite, cookie, cantelope, etc.) to using two words together in a sentence (bye bye mom, cookie please, no Bri, bless you, oh geez, darn it) and our favorite possessive pronoun – mine!  They can carry on a conversation with us, or interject into our conversation using just a couple words at a time, making it utterly apparent that they know exactly what we are saying. Oh my!

Their personalities are continuing to develop, and the differences between the two girls continue to amaze me. 
My baby A – Miss Olivia - has become very maternal over the past few months and is becoming increasingly task oriented.  She has taken to her baby doll recently and loves to swaddle her, feed and burp her, carry her around, and put her in the swing.  She likes to pick up and put things in their place.  She is a master at putting together puzzles. She is very good at following instructions.  She is also very much into role playing – picking up bags or purses, filling them with goodies from her toy box, then putting them over her shoulder and pretending to leave (I suspect like momma does when she goes to work).  She is happy to play independently.  She is a total people pleaser. She is very tender hearted – she is quick to anger, but is also quick to get her feelings hurt – so we have to be very careful about how we discipline her.  Likewise she is very concerned about others, so if someone else gets hurt she wants to make sure they are okay, and will do whatever she can to comfort them.  She always wants to be part of the group, and never wants to be left out. She learns the best by simply watching others. This girl doesn’t miss a thing.
My baby B – Miss Brianna - is very artistic and creative.  She can sit for 30-45 minutes at a time and color pictures.  Even after that period of time she gets upset when you take the paper and colors away from her.  Quite the attention span for an almost 2 year old!  She learns best by touching, feeling, and experimenting. She enjoys singing and loves to read books.  She also loves to dress up in pretty dresses and dance around the house.  She is very determined – if she wants something she will do whatever she thinks she needs to do to get it – regardless of the risk of getting hurt or getting in trouble.  She is a pretty messy eater, and dances happily to the beat of her own drum.  She doesn’t seem to care what others think of her.  She loves to sleep and is a hard sleeper (don’t wake that girl up!). She loves to snuggle and read books.  She prefers one-on-one interaction to group interaction, and doesn’t really care whetehr or not she is included in a group.
Both girls are doing extremely well with their little brother.  They snuggle him, give him kisses, and talk sweetly to him.  If he is crying, they try to console him.  Livvy will fetch a new diaper, cover him up if she thinks he is cold, talk to him, give him kisses, stroke his head, and will try to help burp him.  Bri will talk to him and cover him if he is cold, but isn’t interested past that point.  I’m just so very pleased that they don’t hate him!
Although really, who could hate this snuggle bunny?!?!

Both girls are very interested in their ABC’s, and they love to try to sing with us.  I often hear Bri sitting by herself chanting “A, B, C, D, E, F, hmm, hmm, hmm” or trying to hum row-row-row your boat. It’s really quite adorable.  It seems that every 2 days or so she adds another letter to her ABC repertoire.  At this point she has seemed to skip G and has latched on to H.  We are working on G. LOL.  Livvy isn’t quite as interested as Bri seems to be to learn her ABC’s (I never hear her practice, although that doesn’t seem to be how she learns anyway does it?!), but she does like to join in and try to sing with us when we sing. 
It’s amazing to watch them learn and grow!
What has amazed you about your kiddos this week?
Until next time –
Megan

12 comments:

  1. They sound so grown up! Why do all kids learn the worst words like "mine"!!!!

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    1. Right?! I could do without "mine" for at least another year!!! They were so sweet! Now everything is "MINE"!!! =)

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  2. Yeah, what's with all the "mines" and "nos". Bri and Liv sound like they're rapidly becoming self-aware little ladies. :)
    My Spice likes to sing and hum the ABC tune too and I confess that it wasn't all I heard her humming that I realised that ABCD and twinkle twinkle little star have the same tune. (Only took me 30+ decades to learn that from a 20 month old!)

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    1. LOL Olusola! I too figured that out about 6 months ago...and boy was I amazed! Then I felt a little silly - how could I have not realized it was the same tune just a bit earlier?! Better late than never, yes?

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  3. Oh, my - if I lived close to you, I'd be coming over all the time to hold Hudson. He is SO cute!!!

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    1. You would be welcome to snuggle him for sure! He is totally huggable and squeezable and just squishy! I am totally enjoying him, and I am perfectly happy to share him with the rest of the world!

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  4. Bah Bah Black sheep too! We the ABC/Twinkle Twinkle/Ba Ba Black sheep medley at my house. ;-)

    The kids are so grown up. Watching them today… Man! Little people - little friends!

    Hudson is so adorable!

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    1. Oh yeah! Ba Ba! I totally forgot about that one! We don't sing it much, BUT, we should! Especially since it's the same tune!
      I know - the kiddos were SO cute today! They are growing up - little independent souls =).

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  5. MEGAN! Long over-due comment here... SO SORRY!! Life has put my blog life on the back burner and I miss keeping up with everyone! It doesn't help that my girls aren't napping anymore! Your little man is so darn handsome!! It looks like he fits right in! And your girls... they must have instantly grown up when he came home! It always seems like kiddos with younger siblings are just more mature! I was reminded of this as I was peeling a sucker off our wood floor today! Really? From a 3.5 year old?! Anyway... you look GREAT and I'm so glad things are going so well! You're a Super Momma!!

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    1. Totally understand! It is awesome to hear from you Kristi!!! I think the girls did grow up even more as soon as we brought Hudson home! As for your sucker incident...perhaps a momentary lapse in judgement? =). You are so sweet! If you end up in town, hunt me down woman!

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  6. Why can't Blogger have a LIKE button like Facebook?? I would totally LIKE Johannah's comment!

    Hang on...it just speeds up from here. One of the coolest things with Em and Drew recently is their increasing conversations with each other. LOVE IT!!

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    1. LOL! We need to create it! Blogger totally needs a like button! =).
      I love their sweet little voices - I bet the conversations are going to be just amazing!!!

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