Bragging on Madison
Sometimes Madison kind of freaks us out — she’s really smart. Here are the smart things she’s done lately (remember, she’ll be 22 months at the end of this month):
1. Recognize some colors. “Those purple pants!” she said recently. She can also identify blue. Other than reading Brown Bear, Brown Bear upon request, this is not something we’ve ever consciously worked on.
2. Uses pronouns. Ok, so sometimes she gets it wrong. She still says, “With me!” when she means she wants to come with you and “Rocka you!” when she wants you to rock her but that’s because it’s the way we say it, “Do you want to come with me?” “Do you want me to rock you?” But she also gets them right an awful lot. Especially possessive pronouns. “That’s his.” “My eye hurts.”
3. She says “two” when she means two. “Two rubberbands!” she’ll shout when she finds a second.
4. She remembers everything. She remembers books we haven’t read in months, she remembers events that happened this fall.
Mostly it’s the talking. Noah spoke more clearly at this age but said a lot less. We have a video of him at 23 months and he’s saying (indicating a board book), “Apple book! Apple book! Read book! Bite!” (And then he bit the book because it was shaped like an apple.)
Madison, on the other hand, would say it like this, “I want apple book, too! Read book, tease! (her word for please) I bite apple book, see?”
Just now she said, “Chips! I want chips! More chips, tease!” (It’s 9am.) “Salsa!” I told her no and she said, “I ask Daddy about it.” (She knows Daddy is a push-over.) Now she’s pointing to the kitchen table. “That’s Daddy’s chair. That’s Mommy’s chair. That’s Noah’s chair. There’s Noah’s chair.”
Another interesting language-development thing to watch, similar to pronouns, is use of the passive. Kids often don’t distinguish active & passive sentences (”The red car hits the truck.” vs “The truck is hit by the red car.” –> kids who don’t have the distinction will think these are two different events) when both readings are equally plausible until quite late - I once tested a 5 yr old who didn’t quite have the distinction.
Just in case you wanted something else interesting to watch for…
Ahh, don’t you love genius girls. She takes after her mothers.
I love these posts! And I just love her to bits? I am wondering if you find it is easier to post brags about M than it is to post brags about N? I would think that because intelligence is often seen as being natural (verse nurtured) that when you make these posts you feel immune from the consequences of general bragging about one’s biological children? Does that make sense? Obviously a blog is a unique sphere and so I wonder if this plays out in your life in general.
Either way, I love these snipets into her life!
Best!