Mini Alex update.

[rivka]

Alex is doing so many new things every day! I want to note some of them down so I don't forget them.

New words: baby, clothes, outside, nose, eye, toes, knee (only applied when viewed through ripped jeans, for some reason), light, kids, read, rocket, Pa (replaces "Daddy" to refer to her Papa), stars, blocks, bread, cake (mostly applied to rice cakes, also appears when playing pat-a-cake), clues (refers to the TV show "Blue's Clues," which she now asks for by name. I am a bad mother.), hello, that, mail.

New book she asks for by name: Fox in Socks. ("Socks Socks!")

Four new tricks:
(1) Holding my cell phone up to her ear and saying "'Lo!"
(2) Holding a tissue or napkin up to her face and making a blowing noise, as if blowing her nose.
(3) Playing along with "Two Little Monkeys" by tapping her head and shaking a lecturing finger at more-or-less the appropriate moments.
(4) Waving and saying "Bye!" for endings: finishing books, walking away from a cage at the zoo, leaving her toothbrush behind in the bathroom, having her star light turned off at night.

Comments

[perceval.livejournal.com]

Ah, that's funny. We're raising our daughter to be trilingual (German parents, English all around her, Scottish Gaelic playgroup, then nursery and school later on). When I name things for her, they're usually in German (I almost never use English with her, and if I do, it's out of courtesy to other English-speaking mums I'm with). When I name, I usually just say the word, maybe sometimes prefaced with "Mummy's X". After naming an item, I often make a sentence with it, sometimes as simple as "Das ist ein Buch", which means that she'll get gender and case.

One other thing I notice is that I make the lax vowels such as the /I/ in milk more tense when I'm enunciating words for her. It's automatic, as well. Very strange, this instinct. My DH on the other hand, speaks to her in this extremely soft soothing voice.