Bigger and better adventures

Talia has become a complete hoot since she got the gift of the gab. She comes out with new things every day and I have to say it is the most amazing time, you can see her soaking things up like a sponge - and squirting them all back out again.

* When I take off her nappy, we look at it together.  If she’s pooped, she says “oooooh, poo!” and if she hasn’t, she says “All gone poo! Nuffing poo!”

* For the first time ever, she tried to sing “head, shole, knee, toes”, with pretty good hand actions.  Less fortunately it was while sitting at the front of a synagogue in front of the rabbi in the middle of the serious bit of the service.  :lol:  It was hilarious.

* She is completely mad about animals, especially zoo and farm animals, and can name loads of them.  She has Maisy’s Farm on DVD and watches it every day.  It has lots of baby animals so we had this conversation this morning.  Me: “what’s a baby duck called?” T:”duck-ing!”  Me: “That’s right Talia, very good! What’s a baby pig called?” T:(huge grin) “pig-ing!”  Me: “Mmm, I think a baby pig is called a piglet. What’s a baby sheep called?” T: (another huge grin) “sheep-let!”

Talia’s vocabulary is continuing to expand at an unprecedented rate.  I must confess that prior to the last couple of weeks, I had read articles saying how toddlers may know hundreds of words by the time they are 2 and thought “I can’t believe that”.  But now I’m a believer!

Before I forget them all, I thought I should try and keep tabs on Talia’s new words… so I’m going to start a new page where I can list them.   All my reading and talking is paying off - woo hoo!

Talia’s vocab has gone from no real words at 12 months corrected to 2 words at 14 months corrected and now in the past 2 months she’s suddenly jumped to over 10 words (although she understands more). Yesterday we had a very special day, TWO new words.

I was putting away crayons and saying “bye bye red crayon, bye bye blue crayon” etc and Talia started saying “ba ba” each time I said bye bye. She repeated this later, so that’s a word as far as I’m concerned!

Then in the late afternoon I heard my husband arrive home (he cycles, and always whistles when he gets into to the back yard) and before I said anything Talia said “Daddeh!” I said “Did you hear Daddy Talia?” and she said “Okay” (her word for yes). She repeated that word too so yay, that’s daddy sorted, just got to keep working on mummy!