Reed is getting really good with the tricycle he got from Uncle Brian for Christmas. At first, he was not so great at peddling, but it didn't take him too long to figure that part out. Steering was the next challenge, but now he steers great, rides forwards and backwards and with some encouragement from G and I, he is learning how to turn it around by himself on the sidewalk so we don't have to keep turning it back around for him! He's cute when he rides it, he usually pretends it's a steam train.
Reed is train obsessed!! :) Even Spring has caught the train bug. She still doesn't have a lot of words or sounds she makes consistently, but she will copy Reed with he makes "woo-woo" or whistle noises (high pitches squeals since neither of them can actually whistle) for his trains. The whistle noises are pretty cute because they both put their fingers to their mouth, the way some people do to whistle loudly. I'm not sure where they picked that up since neither G or I can whistle that way!
And speaking of words that Spring says, she has what I call "proto-words". They're not really fully formed words yet, but they are sounds that she uses for certain things. For instance, a loud "AH" noise means duck, or sometimes bird (sounds like the "a" sound in quack). She will whisper "puh-puh-puh" for puppy or dog. She says eeorse for horse. I wonder what the future holds for a little girl picks up horse as one of her first words and whose mommy and grandma LOVED horses! We might want to start saving for a horse now!! :)
And since I didn't get a picture of me playing clarinet, I thought I'd post a picture of us enjoying the sun today!
Reed is getting really good with the tricycle he got from Uncle Brian for Christmas. At first, he was not so great at peddling, but it didn't take him too long to figure that part out. Steering was the next challenge, but now he steers great, rides forwards and backwards and with some encouragement from G and I, he is learning how to turn it around by himself on the sidewalk so we don't have to keep turning it back around for him! He's cute when he rides it, he usually pretends it's a steam train. 
Reed is train obsessed!! :) Even Spring has caught the train bug. She still doesn't have a lot of words or sounds she makes consistently, but she will copy Reed with he makes "woo-woo" or whistle noises (high pitches squeals since neither of them can actually whistle) for his trains. The whistle noises are pretty cute because they both put their fingers to their mouth, the way some people do to whistle loudly. I'm not sure where they picked that up since neither G or I can whistle that way!
And speaking of words that Spring says, she has what I call "proto-words". They're not really fully formed words yet, but they are sounds that she uses for certain things. For instance, a loud "AH" noise means duck, or sometimes bird (sounds like the "a" sound in quack). She will whisper "puh-puh-puh" for puppy or dog. She says eeorse for horse. I wonder what the future holds for a little girl picks up horse as one of her first words and whose mommy and grandma LOVED horses! We might want to start saving for a horse now!! :)
And since I didn't get a picture of me playing clarinet, I thought I'd post a picture of us enjoying the sun today!
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Oops - - just posted the turning around on FB. Should have checked the Blog.
The word that I hear from Spring most often is UH for up. Means pick me up, an airplane is up over head, something else just went up or should go up. That is interesting since it is a direction or concept rather than a concrete thing. She is going to be a talker once we get the rest of the sounds organized.
Reed has become much easier to understand. I hear him working hard on the sounds that he has trouble with like "st" or "sl" at the beginning of words.
He hears what he wants them to sound like but the tongue is not always cooperating yet. The "st" is pretty important since it starts the word "steam" and that is what steam engines make. Everything makes steam right now, and he likes to pretend that buses etc are all steam engines. He noticed that Harmon's restaurant had a vent on front and it too became a steam engine.
Grandma Mary Lou
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