Living with a Speech Therapist

Overheard in the playroom today:

Speed to Chickadee: "You want up? Say 'up!' 'Up!' Or you say, 'help me please!'"

As an aside, he was helping her climb in and out of a diaper box. Why buy toys when you have diaper boxes?

Never Say Never #2,367,410

I swore I'd never be one of those crazy people who wears her babies all the time.

Monkey See. Monkey Do.

The Not-So-Terrible Twos

I may have mentioned before that Sunshine is learning to be two. I've had an 8 year old that acted like a 20 year old before, but have never had a two year old who didn't throw tantrums. Or cry. At all. Or spill. Or whack someone from time to time.

While this not acting like a two year old is can really be EASY, we don't really want her skipping her terrible twos.

So an internal party was had last week when Sunshine cried over a toy for the first time. And then we gave it to her. Another party was had when she spilled her food on the floor and didn't immediately hop down and pick it up.

This is our definition of progress: Sunshine learning to be a kid, learning to be two, learning that messes are ok, disagreeing is ok, and fun can be had.

Happy 1 1/6 Birthday!

to Chickadee.

What a difference a month makes.

Chickadee is now:
walking
blowing kisses
waving bye-bye (with both hands simultaneously)
dancing (oh my, how the girl can dance)
taking things out of drawers/boxes/bags
and making her siblings push her around incessantly in a tonka truck.

She's also:
spitting
screaming
wiping her nose on my skirt
and running away for diaper changes.

Now we just need to work on:
running
following directions
more words
less snot
and some teeth.

Priorities

We've spent weeks working on remembering basic vocabulary words.
Dog. Cat. Horse. Car. Truck. Motorcycle. Pig. Macaroni.
We've just started colors and ABCs.

But give the boy a brownie and he'll never ever forget that word.

My kind of guy!

Fair Question

We're working toward increasing our vocabulary of basic things. In the meantime, some pretty confusing conversations happen.

The other day in the car:

Speed: Make TV loud please?
Me: Um, we don't have a TV in the car. We have a RADIO. Is that what you hear? A RADIO? Our TV is at home but we don't really watch it.
Speed: What we do with it?
Me: Keep it in the cabinet.
Speed: Oh.

Right Back At You

Daily exchange between me and the kids:

"Hey Speed, guess what?"
(turns head)
"You're a great guy."

"Hey Sunshine, guess what?"
(turns and smiles)
"You're a great girl!"

"Hey Chickadee, guess what?"
"You're a great baby!"

I say this every day. Randomly. Frequently. To my three mostly non-talkers.

Today I got this:
"Hey guess what? You a good Mommy Tammy!"

Thanks, Speed. I'm working on it.