Ah, Raffaele's vocabulary. It's expanding all the time, I am happy to report.
I do admit that he's a late talker, which is absolutely no concern to me, since I was a late talker too. I've heard from so many parents who also have late talkers, and they blossom into their vocabulary and sentence structure just fine. As they say, "you've never met a teenager that still babbles, right?"
Raffaele said his first three-word sentence yesterday: "I see homes." We were driving in the late afternoon yesterday to our local playground and looking out the car window through the bushes of the community that we passed he said, "I see homes."
That was his first "official" three-word sentence, anyway. He's been speaking in what I call "phrases." For example, he has said a variety of expressions such as the following: "Whe-A-YOU?" "Whe'd-it'go?" "How-A-You?" "Whas-Dat?" Etc. I didn't realize how often I said these terms, and he picked up on them as single-type-word expressions to say. He's done a great job.
His most versatile word early on was "stuck." Stuck. So many meanings. If he can't get to a toy: "stuck." If he wants to be lifted out of the swing: "stuck." If he can't open something: "stuck." It's amazing how they use their available words to convey what they mean to say.
"This, this," as he points, must be my favorite. It means that there's something about that thing at which he's pointing. It's also quite neat that my husband and I have been able to figure out what it is that he is trying to say. "This." "Oh, this, Raffaele. You want this." Or "this opens like that."
The toddler UN could hire me as a translator.
3 comments:
Yay, a Raffaele update! (I love the Teresa updates too, but the Raffy ones hit home since he and Jeffrey are so close in age.) I still think his phrases should count as 3-4 word sentences, by the way!
My husband was a later talker as well - He's now an astronomer. My daughter is taking a while as well. There's for one, genes, and then a dual-language system we've got going here that has her learning twice as much. We musn't rush them. I for one believe that it is them (my children) that direct the pace of their learning. That is also what I do as I teach (I teach pre-k and k) and it has worked for well for over 10 years.
My son didn't speak until he was nearly three. Now he's the funniest talker I've ever met, and oh so social. I have no problems
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