Smiley is a talker

Posted by Breeze on Monday, March 3, 2008 at 6:23 pm
Category: Breeze

I must say I’ve been nervous. Tulip talked so early and so well that I was nervous about him, both because he was a second child who frequently gets less attention than his big sister did at the same age and because he’s a boy. Many of the little boys I know have had issues of one sort or another with talking, and it’s hard on them and leads to frustration. One little boy had said that he didn’t want to try to talk to new people because they didn’t understand him before he started getting speech therapy, and that’s just sad. I hoped my little guy wouldn’t have to deal with the same frustration, but as he got older and older with very few sounds, I got nervous.

Then a few weeks ago he started saying “mama” and “dada” pretty regularly. Then it was pointing to the dog and saying “daw.” My husband, ever the skeptic, was hard to convince, but a girlfriend and I were sure that this was it, his first real word. Last week even his daddy couldn’t deny that Smiley was saying dog and ball (”baw”). Yesterday he went for a walk with the same girlfriend and her family and saw a flock of noisy and active geese. It didn’t take long at all for him to start repeating “geese” while pointing to them. Today it was “dis.” He would hand me “dis” toy or point to “dis” book. He’ll repeat sounds after a few repetitions, and he’s so proud of himself. I think he just wasn’t ready or interested until now, a quiet little guy like his dad, but the time has come, and like everything else, he’s going to do it all at once.