14 August 2008

Sentences

Cuddling with her daddy.

Sasha is speaking simple sentences.
This has been going on a while now, (like in the "light broken" story posted a few days ago) but it's official. I do believe it started while she was in Montana, but it's been accelerating. Her verbal skills in general are definitely accelerating lately.
She is able to string two or more words together, and lately especially a subject and a verb. For example "light broken".
She has already been saying possessive phrases for quite a while, for example "mama's ninning" (translation "Mom's knitting"), or "Cassie's juice". She has been fascinated with possession for a while.
The thing I love about how she speaks sentences right now, is that she takes a good pause between the two words. It's not a long pause, but it's much longer than an older child or adult would take between words.
She also is good at indicating turns. What I mean by this is say for example she is eating some crackers. She'll say "Mama!" and force feed me a cracker whether I want it or not. Then she'll say "Sasha!" and feed herself a cracker. She refers to herself and all her possessions as Sasha, which I find cute.

She has been trying to say more complex, multisyllabic words such as "accident".

Anything we say, she repeats, including and especially the bad words. There have been multiple occasions where she has said words that we should not have said in her presence.
There was one instance especially, where she used a naughty word in good context. She was walking when suddenly her pants, which were too loose around the waist, fell down to her ankles. She stopped, looked down at her fallen pants, and loudly exclaimed, "Sh*t!". And you know, I do believe I would have said the same thing if I was in her situation. She pulled her pants back up and carried on.

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