This morning, Emily said “I want a drink”, over and over. Isaac said “please drink” so he got a drink. Isaac says please most of the time now and if he forgets a quick prompt will get him to say it. Emily just refuses to use please in a sentence. Even when we say exactly what we want her to say, “Daddy, can I please have a drink”, she leaves out the please.
Isaac can say complicated words like “helicopter”. Mind you, if you didn’t see that he was holding one at the time, you’d probably think he was babbling at you because he doesn’t really have the sounds he needs. He can stream many words together telling you about things. He’s getting up to 3 or 4 words in a sentence too. He was pointing around the room tonight telling us about what he saw.
They’re doing colours at kindy. It must be sinking in because out of the blue Isaac said to us today, “this red shirt”. The particular shirt has always been a “wiggles” shirt and I’m not sure that we’ve ever called it red before.
Emily and Isaac really love nursery rhymes at the moment. Isaac especially loves ones with actions and he’ll try to do them. Emily is starting to sing along but she doesn’t seem able to get all of the words in a sentence.
Hmm…
Now that I think about it, Emily seems to have real trouble repeating more than a few words. Tonight we were reading her Dora book and she couldn’t say “River, Jungle, Farm”. She tried “Jungle, Farm” and then “River, Farm”. It’s as if there’s a big hole somewhere that things fall into. Perhaps some kind of memory problem. That would certainly go a long way to explaining her language problems.
