Elena is starting to put trailing consonants, or at least multiple syllables, in her words. This is making it easier to understand her, although on occasion she will now put in extra syllables in some phrases: "Where did Daddy go?" which she has traditionally said as "Whe Da-da go?" sometimes now sounds like "Whe Da-da-da-da-go-go-go?"
Amanda, though, is sticking to the "initial consonant and initial vowel" method. This makes it hard to know what she's saying. At the sink, Amanda said "Doh Boo". Donna had no idea what this meant (understandably) until we noticed the page of stickers with "Dora" and "Boots" on them just past the sink.
An institent "Doh" while pointing at the table also had us confused. After we incorrectly guessed several times, Amanda said "Doh. Whoo-whoo.", which was her obvious sound of a dog barking. And yes, there was a small plastic Lego dog under the paper on the table. That was actually sort of neat in that she tried an alternate method of communicating. I like it when they're little problem solvers!
They both actually like saying the complete words "ham" and "hum", which they say with a British accent ("hahm" instead of "hehm") and a very long "mmmmm".
Posted by Rob Reid at December 8, 2003 12:28 PM