Tonight, while we were playing before dinner I began singing the alphabet song. And she repeated last night's action. She walked over, got the book, and brought it over to Dave to read. As a result, we repeated this book many, many times this evening. (Although, I'm still thinking it is a coincident, even though she has done it twice now.)
Carly also used her spoon independently twice today. She used it to feed herself some peach yogurt this morning and then some green beans and chicken noodle dinner. She is still quite messy, and needs help holding the dish while she is "dipping" the spoon into it, but she can complete the motion for a few passes. We are a long way from her feeding herself an entire meal using utensils, but we are taking big girl steps in the right directions.
Update (11/10/10) - Carly fed herself some at all three meals today with her spoon, and went and got her Chicka Chicka Boom Boom book on two different instances from two different places today when someone began singing the alphabet song. (She also ignored me once when I sang it, there were some blocks that were a lot more interesting.)
Mama Sharon, Give Miss Carly a break!!!! She knows the connection between the ABC's and Chicka Boom!!! Next step: Give her the 1st 3 magnets on the frig..... ABC instead of CARLY....just a thought from the Grandma who never took an EDU course. Her mind certainly has been busy!
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The A is lost...
ReplyDeleteTheir minds are like sponges!! At 14/15 months Benjamin could point out and pronounce 8 letters, with "M" and "P" being his favorite. He knew all 26 of the capital letters of the alphabet at 19 months (could point them out when you asked for a specific letter and pronounce most of them.) With Samuel, however, it's a different story. I can definitely tell that the second child doesn't get the same amount of attention :-( Sometimes I feel like he is lagging behind B but I know it will all even out soon.
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