It wasn’t that he wasn’t talking. He would jabber on through binkied mouth in phrases and repeated words about 20 % distinguishable to the non-relative ear. So imagine my surprise when he walked up to me first thing in the morning and said:
“Reid hit me in the head!”
I nearly cried. How beautiful! His first sentence. Subject-check. Verb-check. Bonus points for the prepositional phrase. I let it rest for an hour or so. I just wanted to soak in the amazement. Later I smelled something foul and asked Rhett if he had stinky pants. He replied:
“No, Grandma changed me.”
I nearly cried. How beautiful! His second sentence. Subject-check. Verb-check. Bonus points for the exclamation. I let it rest for an hour or so. I just wanted to soak in the amazement. Later he walked into the kitchen. He announced:
“I go in car. I go in fiiiiiiive minutes.”
I nearly cried. How beautiful! His first two sentence combination. Subject-check/check. Verb-check/check. Bonus prepositional phrase-check/check. I also felt like I needed to award additional points for catchy phrasing and dramatic delivery.
Let’s take inventory of his first 4 sentences. His life is in peril. He resourcefully recruits help as needed. He is on the move. He is giving me warning. This is a pretty clear and concise picture of his world here at casa de Nirvana.
I am hiding the car keys and my cell phone. I have no idea what skills he will master or what he might say next…Rhett(2) woke up 3 days ago speaking in complete sentences.
It wasn’t that he wasn’t talking. He would jabber on through binkied mouth in phrases and repeated words about 20 % distinguishable to the non-relative ear. So imagine my surprise when he walked up to me first thing in the morning and said:
“Reid hit me in the head!”
I nearly cried. How beautiful! His first sentence. Subject-check. Verb-check. Bonus points for the prepositional phrase. I let it rest for an hour or so. I just wanted to soak in the amazement. Later I smelled something foul and asked Rhett if he had stinky pants. He replied:
“No, Grandma changed me.”
I nearly cried. How beautiful! His second sentence. Subject-check. Verb-check. Bonus points for the exclamation. I let it rest for an hour or so. I just wanted to soak in the amazement. Later he walked into the kitchen. He announced:
“I go in car. I go in fiiiiiiive minutes.”
I nearly cried. How beautiful! His first two sentence combination. Subject-check/check. Verb-check/check. Bonus prepositional phrase-check/check. I also felt like I needed to award additional points for catchy phrasing and dramatic delivery.
Let’s take inventory of his first 4 sentences. His life is in peril. He resourcefully recruits help as needed. He is on the move. He is giving me warning. This is a pretty clear and concise picture of his world here at casa de Nirvana.
I am hiding the car keys and my cell phone. I have no idea what skills he will master or what he might say next…
It wasn’t that he wasn’t talking. He would jabber on through binkied mouth in phrases and repeated words about 20 % distinguishable to the non-relative ear. So imagine my surprise when he walked up to me first thing in the morning and said:
“Reid hit me in the head!”
I nearly cried. How beautiful! His first sentence. Subject-check. Verb-check. Bonus points for the prepositional phrase. I let it rest for an hour or so. I just wanted to soak in the amazement. Later I smelled something foul and asked Rhett if he had stinky pants. He replied:
“No, Grandma changed me.”
I nearly cried. How beautiful! His second sentence. Subject-check. Verb-check. Bonus points for the exclamation. I let it rest for an hour or so. I just wanted to soak in the amazement. Later he walked into the kitchen. He announced:
“I go in car. I go in fiiiiiiive minutes.”
I nearly cried. How beautiful! His first two sentence combination. Subject-check/check. Verb-check/check. Bonus prepositional phrase-check/check. I also felt like I needed to award additional points for catchy phrasing and dramatic delivery.
Let’s take inventory of his first 4 sentences. His life is in peril. He resourcefully recruits help as needed. He is on the move. He is giving me warning. This is a pretty clear and concise picture of his world here at casa de Nirvana.
I am hiding the car keys and my cell phone. I have no idea what skills he will master or what he might say next…
How exciting! Your pride and excitement really come through in your writing. My second daughter was very late talking… Her older sister never really let her get a word in edgewise… Then one day she was playing dress up, and suddenly she came running down the hall wailing, “I NEED HEELS!”
OMG, I am crying TOO!!! When will this happen to MEEEEE???? My first kid was talking early. My second? No. interest. whatsoever!
Wait, maybe Reid should come over and hit her over the head…
Amazing how you can be completely happy that he’s saying something for the first time, but sad that your last “baby” is passing a milestone…or maybe that’s just my neurotic problem! :0)
He sounds precious with his binkie in his mouth.
Okay, first: there’s that picture! Oh. my. word. He is so darling!
Second: Hot diggity woman! The pedi. and I were talking yesterday about monkey’s ‘lack’ of words. I told her flat out.. he understands everything you say, he babbles quite a bit with lots of inflection and emotion.. I’m not worried. He has a 4 yr old sister who never shuts up. When he finally does ‘talk’ It’ll be something profound and meaningful 🙂
This post.. just solidified that for me.
I’ll cry with you for our babies growing up.
Aw, yay for Rhett! That’s awesome!
Smart AND cute.
Start filling out the paperwork for MIT, Mama!
i’m still waiting for mine to talk in full sentences….
Ah, talking, that mixed blessing. I still remember The Baby’s first real sentence: “The Boy hit me with my tights!” Apparently, only trauma provokes real speech.
wait until he sends his first text message…..
That’s how Einstein started 😉