Owen is getting more and more interested in talking.
Some of his favorite phrases:
- mommy go work
- daddy go work
- mommy go peepee
- let go
- put it
- get down!, which he uses with the cats
- nursery rhyme, which is his favorite book right now (more on this later)
He's branched into multisyllable words, with popular ones including
- temperature
- helicopter
- screwdriver
I had no idea how much little kids liked nursery rhymes. Owen LOVES them and we read from his nursery rhyme book every night before bed. I now dream about Peter Piper and his Pickled Peppers. Owen likes to talk about
- humpty dumpty wall, which he likes because it's a game from swim class that lets him jump into the pool. Unfortunately for our nanny, he's tried moving this game to the couch and flinging himself at her which is 1. dangerous and 2. painful for the recipient of the jumping.
- baa baa black sheep, which then becomes unintelligible after the first line but is one of his favorits
- peter piper
- twinkle star, also a favorite
He also sings his own version of the ABCs, which includes some letters in the proper order and gibberish at the end. He also counts in the same way, 1,2,3....8,9....14,15, etc. Surprisingly fun to listen to, although maybe it's because he's my kid.
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Word Explosion
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When O gets a bit bigger (or why wait, do it now) you should get "They Might Be Giants: Here come the ABCs" Its really the best kids music album I have ever heard and the videos are awesome.
I thought of it because they deal with some very specific problems:
"LMNO
is four letters
and not one"
"QU, they're often a pair
make qu sounds together like
quick quack and quill"
"Who put the alphabet in alphabetical order?"
and how to sing the alphabet backwards.
The Bisousette is also counting and learning her colors - inconsistently. The other day she went from 1 to 8 - now she counts "four, three...pause THIRTEEN!"
I was reading to her from mother goose the other day, and came across a poem in the middle of the book that went something like this:
On Monday Farmer John got married
On Tuesday Farmer John blah blah etc. etc.
On Friday Farmer John had a fever
On Saturday Farmer John was dead
On Sunday Farmer John was buried.
Goodnight, Bisousette...
Yep, there are a few we skip in the nursery rhyme books. Ladybug, ladybug (which I'd never heard of) starts with all ladybug's children burning in a house fire and goes from there. We skip that one.
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