Are lemons blue? Nooo! Lemons are yellow.
Lots of people say that roundabout 18 months is the age at which kids are at their most adorable. Beth is just about there now, and we're having all sorts of fun. Her vocabulary is up to 20 odd words, although many of them are only intelligible to me and M. "Buhboh" means all gone, "dor" means daddy, door or dog, "tchi" means cheese and so on. With my mum arriving on Saturday it's good that Beth can say "Nana", even though at present she uses it to refer to a bendy yellow fruit rather than her doting grandmother.
As you can see, we are also doing lots of reading with her, usually at her own instigation. She generally likes touch books, anything with animals and books with flaps that she merrily rips out whenever she can. We'll get her onto Dostoyevsky when she's...I dunno...about three?
posted by Tom Goodfellow @ 7:24 PM
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you may well find her vocabulary is even higher, because you are forgetting to include the words that she knows what she means but you don't.
My eldest (at that age) would often shout Dah Boo when we went out driving. It took us a good six months to equate this cry with us passing a playground and then another six before we realised she was saying Play (dah) Group (boo).
But then according to some tv show with Ray Martin (which I didn't watch, but I saw an ad for) all babies are capable of talking from birth, it is just we can't understand them. And somehow apparently this is like a universal language (like baby Esperanto).
You're right, Beth does understand a lot more than she can articulate. She doesn't have a sound for milk yet, but if we say it she goes and fetches her cup. Besides, if Ray Martin says it, it must be true.
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