I think we are up to around 30 words that Kennedy uses spontaneously and often. Her latest words from this weekend are get (gee- ut) (said to Potter when he hopped in her pool) and no ma’am. The funny thing about a one year old is they learn from imitation and their environment. Typically when Kennedy touches something or points at something Jay and I tell her what it is. I typically say the word three times because that is what we do in my classroom. It is called echoic trials. This said Kennedy sometimes messes up on words. For example, any animal that has fur is a dog to Kennedy and any animal without fur is typically a duck to her. This said some of her mistakes are pretty funny.
Kennedy’s dictionary:
uh-oh – verb to throw food onto the floor
no ma’am – verb to hit an adult
Another funny story:
We went to the zoo on Saturday morning. It wasa great time to go. It wasn’t hot yet, the animals were all awake and playing, and they were feeding several animals. The were letting people at the zoo feed the giraffes so I had to get in on that. We took Kennedy up to the giraffes and she was able to feed and pet them. What we didn’t expect was the giraffe to pull her hairbow out of her hair! Kennedy at first just said “uh oh, but upon seeing her precious red polka dot hair bow hanging out of the giraffes mouth she started yelling “BOW, BOW, BOW!” I bravely removed the bow from the giraffes and we quickly walked away before the zoo keeper could fuss at us.
New story:
While I’m blogging Kennedy was nicely playing with her bath toys in the kitchen (they were all in the kitchen because we let her play with them in the pool earlier.) Kennedy was playing so nicely and Jay was laying on the couch watching TV. We were having a great night. Kennedy stopped playing and walked over to the table and around the kitchen. Finally she made her way over to where Jay was watching TV. I noticed she had a dot on her mouth. I asked Jay what it was. His responce… “was she playing in the bath toys?” “Yeah she had fun.” Jay then informed me that her bath crayons were in the bucket. That dot was blue bath crayon. All over her mouth. All under her nails. All over her hands. But wait there’s more….. she drew the most beautiful blue artwork all over the kitchen floor. At least I could easily wipe it up with warm water!
