I must admit I've spent a few weeks worried out of my mind about Amelia's language skills. Well really it was after she got the MMR shot. I had been against her getting it so young but the nurse talked my husband into it.
Before the shot she was all talk. She had loads of words and she attempted a lot too. Well after her MMR she went very quiet and didn't feel well. This lasted for maybe 3 weeks. Her speech never really picked back up. Then I picked up my "What to Expect, The Toddler Years" There is a section in it about toddlers and regression. One note said that they will sometimes halt in one area to work on another skill. Well that struck a huge note with me. Amelia is a fantastic walker. She has amazing balance and never falls. She will always catch herself and regroup. I noticed that she is now spinning around in circles and dancing, running and walking backwards. It eased my mind that I could relate this.
On that note... This morning Amelia was FULL of chatter! She was talking about "the goggies an da gaga say woof woof" meaning the doggies are in the garden barking! So I feel better! I worry a lot being a SAHM that I'm not doing enough for her. I sometimes have to shh myself and say that she has a lot of other things down to a tea. She can feed herself, follow ANY "order", copies any action, pours me a cup of "tea" and drinks it too.
I wish there was a badge for milestones met as a mommy!
I also worry that I am not doing enough with Emily. But she is a chatter box and can look in her doggies book and woof woof, she says a lot of words. You ask her if she needs a new diaper and she gets up and walks to her bedroom door and the same if you ask if she is ready for a bath. Yesterday when I asked if she wanted to get daddy up she walked to our bedroom. She also picked up her pink elephant bath toy and called it dumbo so she has made the connection that dumbo is an elephant.
ReplyDeleteThat's so cute! It is handy that they can tell you what they want in their own way. I do the same do you want to go to bed? And she'll grab her blanket and go to the door. If I saw lets go outside she'll grab her shoes. It's so hard to not compare them with others and I think that's my biggest flaw.
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