"when the sun beats down and i lie on the bench / i can always hear them talk"

[larryhammer]

TBD is two years and three months old, and there's more talking, talking to report on:

Most communication now is with two- or three-word phrases, with occasional short full sentences -- though the longer the statement, the more likely words will be garbled beyond my comprehension. Among the more complex sentences I've understood to date:

"A kitty is not a truck." (a good category distinction to grasp)
"My Daddy has Daddy pants." (another category distinction -- who wears whose clothes)
"Daddy tell Mommy get apple juice." (phrasal inclusion!)

All of them significant leaps in both syntax and understanding. And then there's conceptual leaps such as:

*car goes by with a Domino's sign on top*
TBD: "Taxi!"
Me: "No, that's a pizza delivery car."
TBD: "Pizza taxi!"
*pause while I realize that's not actually wrong*

The relative context of pronouns continues to cause trouble, though it's been improving since this memorable exchange:

TBD: "Mine!"
Janni: "Yes, that's yours."
TBD: "NOT yours! Mine!"

(Several of the toddler property laws have shown up.) Other idiosyncrasies include "people" being a singular as well as plural form. OTOH, terminal -s is resolving better ("mauss," "buhss").

We're getting ever better on the balance-bike, gliding along down the pavement (when backing up, TBD sometimes goes "beep beep beep" like a truck). Also at walking along a curb (called a "trail" because many have ant trails) or lines of bricks. Bonks that are not actually painful are funny, and being swung around produces squeals of delight. As do pictures of baby animals (even baby ants).

Possibly most interestingly, TBD has started spontaneously reciting events of the recent past -- generally meaning earlier that day -- and also remembers promises for the near future: "No, we'll play with that once we finish dinner," followed by, once everyone has declared themselves "all done," immediately asking for that toy. Remembering, a couple months after the last time it was needed, that a raincoat will let us go out in the rain, was rewarded with a walk in the rain.

---L.

Subject quote from "I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)," Genesis.

Comments

[badtzphoto.livejournal.com]

"Pizza taxi!"
I really like that.
Thanks for sharing these precious experiences.

[larryhammer]

It really is a pizza taxi.

---L.

[dancinghorse.livejournal.com]

I love watching her grow up. And her parents grow up with her. :)

[larryhammer]

Heh, to both parts.

---L.

[sovay]

I really like the concept of the pizza taxi.

[larryhammer]

It's a car paid to transport something, so it's a kind of taxi.

Though that, of course, is grown-up logic. Child logic is it's got a little sign on the roof, so it's a taxi.

---L.

[sovay]

Child logic is it's got a little sign on the roof, so it's a taxi.

I figured that was how it worked, but I still like it.

[larryhammer]

:-)

[gwynnega]

Yay pizza taxi!

[larryhammer]

:-)

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Oh, how fun--at last she can share what is going on in her mind!

[larryhammer]

Something of it: this morning TBD woke from an apparent bad dream and said "uh oh truck" before bursting into tears.

We'll never know.

---L.

[thistleingrey.livejournal.com]

I love the part where causal memory link bits kick in. Other parts are also good, but that one makes explanations work a bit better on all sides. And hee, baby ants.

[larryhammer]

The natural history bookshelf is right next to TBD's little play table, and Journey to the Ants has entered the rotation of books looked through,esp. during breakfast. The ongoing mid-level fascination with ants and babies both doesn't hurt of course.

And oh so very yes, on explanations.

---L.