She struggles with some longer words but has always been confident about "marmalade". When putting on her winter coat she will request "Hood up!" Her favourite dessert is rice pudding which she calls "ri puddi" but better pronunciation is gradually coming together now.
"Drawing!" means she wants to sit at the dining table with me to do some drawing in one of her big drawing pads. I bought her dry wipe pens in case she got colour on her hands, clothes or the table itself. I am quite happy to giver her time just swishing the pen around, getting control of it but sometimes she will hold the pen gently as I manipulate her hand to create simple drawings like the little girl in the top picture.
Mum and Dad and Grandma and Grandpa all try to limit Phoebe's screen time but she can be very insistent. "Tubbies" is short for "Telly Tubbies" but she easily says "Peppa Pig", "Gruffalo's Child" and "Twirly Woos". She is also quite fond of "Mr Tumble" who she refers to simply as "Tumble".
Being a little girl, she is clearly bemused by the cultural necessity to add "please" to any request she makes and is often required to say that word. Currently, it arrives as a prompted afterthought. It's funny how saying "please" and "thank you" have become the very emblems of politeness in English speaking countries.
As I witness Phoebe's escalating language skills I am reminded that I have almost no memory whatsoever of how my own children's language evolution happened. They were helpless babes who couldn't say a thing and then, as if by magic, they became proficient users of English. It is as if I blinked and missed it all. This blogpost will help me to remember how Phoebe grew and learnt to master our language.
In due course "getti" will become "spaghetti" and "Wickbix" will become "Weetabix" as "cuppatea" will become three separate words.
from Yorkshire Pudding https://ift.tt/neoMLTB
