Selina's speech is actually starting to clear up a bit. Who knows where it's headed, but for now I have to record the cute before I forget.
Selina's favorite book right now is Not the Hippopotamus by Sandra Boynton. I say, "do you want to read a book?" and she grins ear to ear and declares "Nahhhhh-Tihhh-totomus!" But today I noticed it was more like, "Not the Hippo-tamus!"
She has a little cold at the moment and she will come up to me, distressed and say "I need tissue! I sneeze!" And she's always right, but in spite of asking, she still gets mad when I actually wipe her nose.
She came to me with the toy tea set and announced, "I make tea! Is vewy hot!" then she blew into the empty, plastic cup.
On the phone to Cole's mother, she said "Hi Grandmom!" with great enthusiasm, then explained "I dwaw peechoo!" ("I'm drawing a picture")
The other day, she carried her shoes up to me and said, "Mama Shannon?" I asked "what?" and she handed me a shoe and said "I need help with shoes. I ready to go now."
She has also picked up Nat's habit of declaring woefully "I'm so sad!" when she is crying for any reason. It's the worst for tearing your heart out.
When we pass by the bathroom she asks "take a baff and pwetty haiwoo?" ("Take a bath and pretty hair?") And she still calls Nat mostly, "sheestoo" for "sister" though sometimes she calls her Nat. Water is still "wawoo."
They still spontaneously hug each other and tell each other they love each other. But Nat does a lot of grabbing things out of Selina's hand too. I give that another six months at the outside. Selina's gonna just start shoving Nat away when she sees her coming in for the grab. She'll do it unemotionally but effectively, I predict. That's how she is. She's very effective physically but not hysterical at all when she trips and falls or fails to do whatever she's trying to do. She just says calmly, "I need help!" and/or gets up, brushes herself off and moves on. Occasionally, if she actually hurts herself in some painful way, she'll announce, "I hurt toe!" (or finger or what-have-you). But she isn't melodramatic about it all, which is weird, since Nat really, really likes to perform her feelings bigger than life. Selina is a great audience for Nat and sometimes copies her in a studied, less emotional way. (She always grins really big though, in a proud "look at me! I did it too!" kind of way--even when she doesn't really know what "it" is.)
It's awesome how different they are in personality. They fit together like puzzle pieces. I hope their relationship continues this well.
I find it so interesting that you are able to record Selina's phonetic speech so well. We also have a 2 year old with lots to say, but most times I just naturally translate her sounds into the words she's meaning to say, so that I really have to struggle to recapture the original sounds. Anyway, a great age -- and ours also loves to make me "coffee"!
Posted by: Fred Vincy | 01 June 2009 at 03:12 PM