Taking a drive with my kids is almost always enlightening. I have noticed A become more and more verbal, but today, for the first time in the car she officially pointed out each and every thing she knows the name of. Car, truck, park, light, bird, plane, house, bus, school, girl- and then “what’s that?” [...]
A has entered a phase of incredible language development over the past two weeks. She wants to know the names of everything and then is able to recall the words in the future on demand. She is constantly pointing to things and saying, “And this?” or “What’s that?” We look at lots of books together [...]
As of today, A officially knows “hot.” The Estonian word is “kuum” but A says “hot” for anything that is warm or hot. Fresh hard boiled egg, “hot.” Pizza pocket, “hot.” Bath water, “hot.” But believe me, she has never met the real “hot” but I guess warm is close enough. She also understands cold, [...]
“Not a baby, not a baby…” is my mantra these days. Having two children barely 16 months apart, certain things happen I think. Namely, the older child, K, gets all the attention because she is much more demanding and clearly verbalizes what she wants and the second child, A, is perpetually The Baby, even when [...]
