Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Blossoming Verbal Skills

Sean's verbal skills have really been taking off lately.  His vocabulary is really big and he often repeats the last word of whatever we say (we have to be careful!).  His sentences have gone from 2-3 words to 4-5 words lately and they follow a good structure with a subject, noun and adjective and even has a pretty good use of prepositions (e.g., "Mommy on couch," "Baby out seat").  He surprised me with a pretty good 5-word sentence the other day while we were blowing bubbles: "Seannie catch that big bubble." Its also adorable that he calls himself Seannie.  His favorite phrase these days (heard about 1000x a day in our house) is "Seannie do it!"  for everything from feeding himself to helping Jamesie roll over to giving himself a bath.  Yesterday at dinner Sean broke his record though and strung together a nice 6 word sentence.  At dinner I asked Cody to get the baby out of his crib so I could feed him in a few minutes after I was done eating.  The following ensued:

Erin: Cody, will you go get the baby?
Sean: Mommy do it that baby off.
Erin: What?
Sean: Mommy do it that baby off.
Erin: Mommy do it that baby off?
Sean: (satisfied) Uh huh. 

Clearly, we have a budding rhetorical genius on our hands. 

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