Word Play
pamelamyers | October 1, 2011
Sam’s language skills have been growing by leaps and bounds lately. She has started saying so many new words, and pretty difficult ones, in my opinion. She is not only saying new words, but she is using them on her own, not just repeating them, so I know she is aware of the meaning. Just the other day, we were looking at one of her books where on one page, two of the animals are wearing each other’s pajamas. One pair is obviously too small and one pair is obviously too big. I sometimes point them out and say how they are mixed up or whatever I say, and the other night I didn’t even mention them and Sam pointed to them and said, “backwards”. I must have said they are backwards before, but for it to just come out of her mouth like that really shocked me.
She is also starting to use more word derivations than before. Running instead of run, eating instead of eat, messy instead of mess, and a lot of plurals. She never used words like that before. Sam is also starting to form sentences, in a way. For instance, yesterday, she was standing on a step stool in our shed and she stumbled off. Right after I helped her up she said, “Fell. Stool. Sam.” It isn’t a perfect sentence, I mean, she didn’t say, “I fell off the stool” but she is getting her point across much better now. I would imagine pretty soon she will be using actual sentences when she talks to us. Her pediatrician did say that getting the concepts across is what is important so she is doing really well.
I love listening to her talk and being surprised by what comes out of her mouth every day. It’s always something new. Someday we will be having whole conversations with each other and I can’t even imagine what that will be like. Sam is such a little person now with a personality, likes and dislikes, opinions. She is so smart, and so funny, I am enjoying getting to know her more and more every single day.