It finally happened, and very quickly after the “double” talk, A made a distinction between English and Estonian on Monday, Nov. 3rd! A and I were in the kitchen talking about her stuffed “karu” (bear) for about 10 minutes. The little pink stuffy was her friend of the moment and she kept showing it to [...]
Today for the first time I noticed my youngest, A, at 20 months old, speaking in doubles. By this, I mean she is grasping that there are two words for everything. One in English and one in Estonian. K did the same thing when she started speaking! Today A was climbing on a pillow and [...]
Well, my oldest daughter, at 3 years and 2 weeks is finally potty trained. After 3 months of pull-ups, frustration, tears, Reese’s Pieces, stickers and messes we got there and it wasn’t at all what I expected. Here’s our journey. At 2 years of age, she was using the potty fairly consistently- for a month. [...]
Yesterday on the way home from school, K points out a little girl Gloria walking home from school with her uncle and tells me, “Gloria doesn’t know what words are.” It took me a couple seconds before I understood what she was telling me. K was telling me that Gloria doesn’t speak English very well [...]
