In her own words
She gets stuck like a broken record when she mentions the glue. Madison does this if she’s talking about something and something else catches her attention. You can see her brain off on something else (you can hear that something else roll away under the chair — it was a toy truck) but her mouth gets gummed up in what it was trying to say. My favorite part of this? When she says “horrible” in that dramatic way she has. My next favorite part is her spontaneous “do-do-do-do” when she goes off to find her doll under the slide. (Madison sings all the way around the house and has for a year or so now.)
Madison talks about Bitsy Baby’s hair
Wow, she sounds grown up! How did that happen so fast?
That girl is awesome! I just love to hear her talk!! Linton talks like that sometimes (gets stuck on a word and repeats it over and over) when he’s thinking of something to say as well. He also has been singing around the house on his own since he was less than one and a half (he actually was able to hum “Twinkle twinkle little star” way before he was one, like maybe 10-11 months or earlier). Hmmm, they’re almost the same age, right? He was born in the end of May 04, and she was born in April?
I love it how you ask her questions. We do the same way, and we’ve always talked to our sons very correctly too (people always remark about their vocabularies — today I was struck at how Linton told me, using the imperative verb perfectly [in Portuguese, of course, a lgg in which verbs are way more complicated than English] to fill the cat’s bowl with water, and with food). If Linton spoke English, it would be lovely to see him having a conversation with Madison, I think!
That was great! I too, like “horrible.” Drama Queen in the making.
I had to listen to it again, of course. The “horrible” is so cute that it makes me want to cry. I don’t think my son is that articulate when talking about his feelings — he did start saying a few weeks ago that something makes him said, will make him sad, or did make him sad (I posted about this briefly), and he can say he’s happy or didn’t like something, but feeling horrible, wow! I love the way she says “two years old” and “supertricks.” It’s cool to see how she conjugates all the verbs in the past as regular verbs (ed ending), my son gets some past irregular tenses wrong too, like to eat “comer” — I ate would be “Eu comi” and he says “Eu comei.” I just wish I could write a post about his language, or post a recording like you do (although I don’t know how to do it!!), but it’s all in Portuguese!
Oh my gosh, I want to hear about the Super Tricks! Diosius does Super Tricks?! What a cliff-hanger!
i think you are the greatest mother with the greatest family.
The cuteness of that was just overwhelming. You have a really nice voice too, and you sound very lovely together. Poor Madison, with the hair of her baby flying off!
I really wanted to hear what she was saying about Diosius and her eye.
For some reason my comments aren’t getting mailed to me so I missed all these!
Lilian, I use Audio Recorder (shareware) on my mac. If your computer has a mike, you’ll be able to record stuff. If you have a PC, maybe someone here could say what software would work for you?
I have NO IDEA what she was saying about Madison/Diosius/Shushi’s (she changed her name to her version of Sushi this morning) eye. The super tricks appear to be being flung off the slide. (We have this little wooden slide in our family room behind the couch — it’s only about as tall as the couch.)
I love this! Madison sounds so grown up and has so much to say. I hope you’ll do this more. What would Noah want to talk about I wonder?
Makes me miss you all the more! Madison and the livingroom of super-tricks! Are you getting my email replies, btw? Not because I expect replies, but it seemed odd when you didn’t…
Obligatory Elliott share: When Elliott was about Madison’s age, he would say, “that’s so tagic” (meaning tragic) in the most melodramatic way, about the most mundane things. It was so hard not to laugh, especially as he had not learned to make his demeanor match his lamentations, and so often, he’d be grinning as he said it.