Our eldest son is now 2 years and 2 months old and has suddenly burst into speech! Every day there are new words and phrases in both English and Portuguese. I decided to capture some of these as it really is amazing to hear your little person speak.
Just before his second birthday he said his first two word sentence and since then he´s increased his vocabulary daily and has even begun to speak in his second language (which is mostly thanks to nursery). We went to an aquarium and he was in his element running around all the displays looking at all the different sea creatures. When we came to the tunnel with the turtles (still his favorite animal) he was just so excited and shouted "bye bye turtle" probably around 300 times! Priceless!
Now is the moment to expose him to language and help him to develop his language (yes we each have our own and its a very personal journey).
I am watching him work out word order. As he has two languages he knows that sometimes the noun comes before the adjective but sometimes it´s the other way around. He ofter asks me by saying something like... "brother baby, baby brother". I then give him the example in English "baby brother" and he goes off repeating it several times.
Each week I will add a word, sentence or phrase (more for my benefit than anyone elses)! I hope you enjoy his quirky little ways :)
Week 1: "Tanta coisa" (so many things). After overhearing his teacher speaking to one of the girls in his class saying she had so many things in her hands he repeated "tanta coisa". They were very excited at nursery as it was the first thing he had said and they said it was just so natural. For the whole afternoon while he played at home he repeated the phase. Now, a few weeks later he looks at me and says "mummy, tanta coisa" with a big grin on his face!
Week 2: "Name puppy Barney". For months he has been calling our dog "puppy". Every day my husband says to him ´your puppy´s name is Barney´. Today he was in the back of the car and said "mummy, name puppy Barney". When he said it to my husband later on he was driven to emotion that his son could finally say the dog´s name!
Week 3: "ohhh, car coming". I am guilty of this phrase! I´m very intent on teaching him road safety and every time we go for a walk I make sure he stops and comes to me when a car is coming. He has to hold my hand then we wait until the car has passed and he can walk alone again. Tonight as we were driving home, he was looking out the window and with every car coming in our direction said "oooh, car coming". I admit is was hilarious as it was rush hour so you can imagine the amount of cars on the road!
Week 4: "baby read, ready baby" after finishing a book he wants to share it with his brother and gives him the book while he gets another one to read - very cute!
Week 5: "butterfly cry, cloud cry, raining" after a week of illness in our house and quite a bit of TV downtime, this phrase appeared. It was his interpretation of a clip from Pocoyo (his new favorite cartoon).
Week 6: "Help me, mummy" this week´s phrase came from tidy up time. Every day I ask the boys to help me tidy up the toys. One evening this week I was preparing dinner and asked my son to start tidying up. After a minute he came up to me pulling me towards the toys so I asked him what he needed to which he replied ´help me mummy´ (which came out a bit more like "´elp me, mummy"!
Week 7: "down up" or "get up, down" Every time he sees someone get up or down or leave the table we have some variation of up/down get up/down. I think hes working out which is up and which is down!
Week 8: "Give it to you" meaning give it to ME! Love this one so much hope it lasts a while.
Week 9: "Mummy funny" meaning mummy´s laughing
Week 10: "Put it off" meaning take it off.
Week 11: "Not, no way" Basically any form of NO comes in this beautiful sentence!
Week 12: "Dinosaur coming" any noise has become a dinosaur coming in our house!
Week 13: "play wif Barney" this is said frequently throughout the day as he love to play in the garden with our dog Barney.
Week 14: "Sing the Song mummy" If he´s tired he asks for the song which is a lullaby I hum when putting the baby to bed which has now become the general cue to sleep in our house. (another of my favorites)!
Week 4: "baby read, ready baby" after finishing a book he wants to share it with his brother and gives him the book while he gets another one to read - very cute!
Week 5: "butterfly cry, cloud cry, raining" after a week of illness in our house and quite a bit of TV downtime, this phrase appeared. It was his interpretation of a clip from Pocoyo (his new favorite cartoon).
Week 6: "Help me, mummy" this week´s phrase came from tidy up time. Every day I ask the boys to help me tidy up the toys. One evening this week I was preparing dinner and asked my son to start tidying up. After a minute he came up to me pulling me towards the toys so I asked him what he needed to which he replied ´help me mummy´ (which came out a bit more like "´elp me, mummy"!
Week 7: "down up" or "get up, down" Every time he sees someone get up or down or leave the table we have some variation of up/down get up/down. I think hes working out which is up and which is down!
Week 8: "Give it to you" meaning give it to ME! Love this one so much hope it lasts a while.
Week 9: "Mummy funny" meaning mummy´s laughing
Week 10: "Put it off" meaning take it off.
Week 11: "Not, no way" Basically any form of NO comes in this beautiful sentence!
Week 12: "Dinosaur coming" any noise has become a dinosaur coming in our house!
Week 13: "play wif Barney" this is said frequently throughout the day as he love to play in the garden with our dog Barney.
Week 14: "Sing the Song mummy" If he´s tired he asks for the song which is a lullaby I hum when putting the baby to bed which has now become the general cue to sleep in our house. (another of my favorites)!
That is great to hear Zoe! And as you know, these bursts don't stop. Even though A is speaking a lot, from time to time we notice a burst. Last week all of a sudden he started to use more words in a sentence and speaking much more clear in both languages. Those moments are really priceless.
ReplyDeleteIt really is amazing when your ´baby´ starts talking. I was wondering when the clarity of speech would begin so I guess a couple more months for this judging by your son. Yesterday we were talking about speaking two languages and I asked him if he was enjoying learning Portuguese and he rhymed off all the words he knows in Portuguese! Amazing stuff :)
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