Thursday, August 31, 2006
One. Yeah.
As Deb mentioned, she took the kids for a walk and to the playground yesterday.
When she was telling me about it, I asked if Sadie had gone down the tubes. Except for some exploratory ventures, mainly she went on the slide last time. Well, that and she loved the suspended bridge on the bigger kid equipment.
Deb thought for a second and said, perhaps a little uncertainly, “one.”
Clear as could be, Sadie followed that with “One. Yeah.”
Little twerp. She’s totally toying with us in the talking department.
Well, perhaps not intentionally. It’s as if the brainpower and attention go for processing everything she sees and hears, and learning the language perfectly, but none goes for using the language she’s learned, rather than her own language or symbolism, except when it happens to slip out or become a word of choice. Like ball or key.
She’ll even use a word a lot, then stop using it for weeks or months, then suddenly use it again. That includes the word she invented for candy: gee (with a hard G sound).
It’s funny, we’re probably supposed to be worried, in the age of modern parenting, but we’re not at all. A kid as bright as Sadie, who when she does talk has clarity and grammar beyond her age, will be just fine.
In the meantime, some of the things she comes out with just floor us.
On another note, Deb has Valerie at her six month checkup today. I can’t wait to find out her specs and what the doctor thinks of her antics. What I really can’t wait for is Sadie’s 2 year appointment at the beginning of October. She has grown so tall!