Monday, March 2, 2009

BA-BAHS, DA-DA, and BEE-AAHHHRRS

I've been trying to wait it out to write this blog about the kids' current speech and vocabulary! But I felt like I had to share some of their words and what we hear from day to day....

Logan is definitely the biggest talker with English words....he has some semblance of many words like: da-da, ma-ma, ball, dog ("gog"), deer, brush (ba-baaaaash), shower (aaawashh), purple, baby, green, go, Ella, hippo ("bippo"), turtle and all of our favorite - bear (bee-ahhhr). To describe the way he says bear, think of someone with a really thick Boston accent saying 'beer'. And he draws it out, which makes it even cuter : )

Paulie is getting extremely interested in communication, but as of yet has not really put a lot of words out there. He points, and gestures and mimics, but the only words we've made out so far are: da-da, ma-ma, turtle, baby, ball, go and Ella. He uses the "word" bah-bah with different inflection or length to describe EVERYTHING. It is a constant tip-toe dance on the fine line between frustrating and incredibly cute. But like I said, I feel like he's more interested in communication than he was just a few weeks ago, but we'll see how long he can get along with bah-bah-ing his way through job interviews : )



Ella is extremely verbose and sure of her communication. The only problem is, we have no idea what those words are! She barks out orders and talks to her dolls and makes gestures to discuss everything from fashion to politics without a single English word : ) In all seriousness, she does have some words - da-da, ma-ma, jakey (our dog...and it's more like "jayjee"), baby and go. When she talks, she gets so serious and speaks in a deeper tone than her normal laugh or other sounds - similar to some of the videos that we posted when she gets her deep, baritone laugh! We're not sure where she picked that up, but it's really cute when she does it.

Overall, the last few weeks & months have been really good. We of course have our times (the boys are getting molars and some other teeth now), but they're really learning how to keep busy and playing. We're getting anxious to get outside and play because of the sunny days we've been having, but the weather is still just freezing : ( We'll make it soon though! Lots of yardwork for them to do!

1 comment:

Tiffany said...

I love the baby english - that isn't english at all! Our Logan does that too! It is awesome to listen as they learn new words but can be so frustrating at the same time... just tell me what you want already! Fun times!!!