Eat
Today Miranda came up to me and thrust into my hand a tub of yoghurt she got out of the fridge. As she did so, she said, "Eat!"
Hmmm. Think she might have wanted something... ?
Learning Letters
Miranda is really impressing me with the way she's learning letters. She's got about half a dozen letters that she can consistantly recognize without prompting, and half a dozen more that she can name if you give her a little hint or reminder.
She's so interested in letters and reading that the other day when I gave her a cookie with writing on it, she was more interested in the letters on it than in eating the cookie!
Her speech is also growing in leaps and bounds. She's saying new words all the time, and she understand that milk (she says "nuk") may be in a container in the fridge, in a cup, in a book (in picture form), or from Mama (she's still having a breastfeed a day in the mornings most days).
Andrew was reading when he was in pre-school. I'm thinking that perhaps Miranda will be, as well...
Camel!
Well, there's nothing wrong with Miranda's language development. She's talking more all the time, and her comprehension is quite good.
Her latest thing has been learning letters! Andrew's been doing this with Zoë, and Miranda wanted to play, so he showed her, too. She's catching on amazingly well. She's very, very interested in learning the names of things.
She was sitting on his lap a few days ago, when he was wearing one of his "geek" t-shirts, one he got from a PERLl (programming language) conference sponsored by O'Reilley (the technical book publisher). The shirt had th word PERL (which is an acronym for Practical Extracting and Reporting Language) and then a picture of a camel, which is on the cover of the O'Reilley PERL book (all their books have 19th century animal drawings for some odd reason).
So Miranda was there and pointed to the letters on Daddy's shirt and he named them off for her one by one as she pointed. P.. E... R... L... That's a camel. P... E... R... L... Camel. Many times.
Now, when she sees a letter she doesn't recognize, she says it's "Camel".
He did manage to teach her "e", "u", and "o", and she can name "z" (which we, being good Australians, pronounce "zed" rather than "zee", despite my American dialect).
She also, I noticed, can consitantly recognize the numeral 5. I'm not quite sure where she picked that up, unless it was watching "Hi Five" with Zoë in the afternoons.
A B C D E F Camel H I J K L M N O Camel....
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