New Words and Balls
Sunday, June 8, 2008
Rob & I were commenting today about how it seems like Liam has hit another cycle of talking more again. He’ll go for weeks when it doesn’t seem like there’s anything new and then all of the sudden several new words and lots of chatter just start pouring out of his mouth.
His newest words include mine, baseball, cheese, red car, wow and extended bye-bye’s. Not only has he learned these new words but he has learned to combine them with some of his old words to form phrases. For example, tonight he was asking for cheese and when I gave his some, he said my cheese. I asked him if he loves momma and he said, "I love bananas." Oh well, I know how much he loves bananas so if I’m a close 2nd, then I’m still happy!
The extended bye-bye’s started last week as we were leaving the house in the "red car" (my New Beetle that he absolutely loves) and he started telling everything bye-bye on the way out of the house and on the way to daycare. We heard bye-bye light, bye-bye cup, bye-bye ball, bye-bye house, bye-bye Da-Da’s car, bye-bye red car (to every other red car we passed). I’m thinking he’d work out great as one of those flight attendants that stands at the door as you are exiting the plane!
We always laugh when we hear all these bye-bye’s because it reminds us of Melissa’s video of Nathan saying bye-bye to all the farm animals. We always think of "Bye-bye, billy goat."
Liam has also really been obsessed with playing with balls lately. Rob mentioned that his ball-throwing coordination and aim have improved dramatically just in the past few days!
When we were in Brady a couple of weeks ago, he loved playing with Slaydn’s whiffle baseballs so we went to Academy Sports today and bought him a pack of the balls. I highly recommend these because they are small enough for him to hold onto, they’re hard plastic so he can’t eat chunks out of them the way he does with the foam rubber balls, and they’re so light they shouldn’t cause damage to anything they bounce off of. Also, since they come in a pack of 6 assorted colors, these balls are good for teaching colors too. (They also have a pack of softball-sized "whiffle" balls that’re a little larger, but the baseball version fits his little hands better.)
His newest words include mine, baseball, cheese, red car, wow and extended bye-bye’s. Not only has he learned these new words but he has learned to combine them with some of his old words to form phrases. For example, tonight he was asking for cheese and when I gave his some, he said my cheese. I asked him if he loves momma and he said, "I love bananas." Oh well, I know how much he loves bananas so if I’m a close 2nd, then I’m still happy!
The extended bye-bye’s started last week as we were leaving the house in the "red car" (my New Beetle that he absolutely loves) and he started telling everything bye-bye on the way out of the house and on the way to daycare. We heard bye-bye light, bye-bye cup, bye-bye ball, bye-bye house, bye-bye Da-Da’s car, bye-bye red car (to every other red car we passed). I’m thinking he’d work out great as one of those flight attendants that stands at the door as you are exiting the plane!
We always laugh when we hear all these bye-bye’s because it reminds us of Melissa’s video of Nathan saying bye-bye to all the farm animals. We always think of "Bye-bye, billy goat."
Liam has also really been obsessed with playing with balls lately. Rob mentioned that his ball-throwing coordination and aim have improved dramatically just in the past few days!When we were in Brady a couple of weeks ago, he loved playing with Slaydn’s whiffle baseballs so we went to Academy Sports today and bought him a pack of the balls. I highly recommend these because they are small enough for him to hold onto, they’re hard plastic so he can’t eat chunks out of them the way he does with the foam rubber balls, and they’re so light they shouldn’t cause damage to anything they bounce off of. Also, since they come in a pack of 6 assorted colors, these balls are good for teaching colors too. (They also have a pack of softball-sized "whiffle" balls that’re a little larger, but the baseball version fits his little hands better.)
posted by Dede at 1:58 AM
3 Comments:
His vocabulary is really growing. Sounds like he loves to show off his knowledge with all the bye-bye's. What fun!
Thanks for sharing the idea about the whiffle baseballs. Eli just loves balls, any kind, so those would be great for him.
The list of bye-byes is so cute!
It's amazing how kids learn! I am so happy you guys are enjoying so much how Liam is increasing his vocabulary! I can't wait until Diego says more things besides "all done"! I am also going to check the whiffle balls for Diego!
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