Hopper's language skills have taken on new highs in the last couple of months. Nearly every day we are blessed to hear him experiment with new words and phrases. Some of which are quite surprising and others directly from our own mouths.
Gone are the days of baby talk and missing articles and prepositions. It's full on paragraphs with adjectives and adverbs and all of the reflexive pronouns. It's astonishing how quickly kids learn, imagine if that scale never ebbed and we were all just walking encyclopediae?
This week his favorite new word, blurted out of the blue, is figurehead... Wha?! He found a yellow bike light, a small LED encased in a rubbery yellow loop that wraps around the handlebars. He announced to me during a play session "Here comes the figurehead mama!" At the end of the day, after hearing him happily belting it out at least 50 times, I started asking him where he heard it and he knew exactly. Thank you Octonauts cartoon.
Sunday, on the bike ride home from dinner with friends, we were all 3 talking about our days. I was talking about my Pilates course and asking him if he had fun with daddy. His reply, oh nevermind.
He's also totally gotten a handle on otherwise and instead and although he hasn't quite mastered the meanings of yesterday and tommorow (when talking about something last week he says yesterday which is somehow freakin cute), he totally has a well of memories he likes to recall and is starting to grasp the days of the week.
One of his favorite things to talk about in the last months is meteorites and he'll ask me if in fact it's a comet instead. He enjoys space talk and loves photos of anything to do with space. Just before Christmas, he had pepernoten cookies in his hand. They're small round brown half spheres. He put 2 together to make a ball, and said, "Mama, look, this is the earth and the earth is our planet and it floats in space." He announced it to me, a statement without any query, as if he had no doubt but was sheerly by way of information. He got super smooched for that one.
I've been kicking myself for not writing down all the lovely things he's said over the last year or so. I was pretty good about it in the beginning but totally lost steam. So I've decided that i will try to just blog it from time to time if not just to have a record of it to look back on...
Sorry no photos, I have about 7 months of photos on my camera and no space on my hard drive. Something that has taken 8th seat in the list of priorities at this moment. But I promise sometime soon, I will get to it.
