It's almost naptime and I can clean up the mess

[geminigirl]

Miriam is playing with a pot right now. She and Naomi have started playing tag, sort of. By which I mean that Naomi will run around the house and Miriam will crawl after her. And they both giggle while they do it.

Naomi has misbehaved today-pulled all the phone books (yeah I still have a set) out, dumped my purse and the diaper bag, and cried when I reprimanded her for it. It made me sad. She's learned a bunch of football hand signals (touchdown, personal foul, holding, face mask, intentional grounding, off sides, false start and a few others.) It's really funny to see her do them and to hear her try and repeat the words. Yesterday when I was asking about body parts (we were trying to identify fingers, hands, tummy and tushie) I also asked about her elbows and she looked at me and said "Elmo?" When I set her down on the floor after a diaper change she ran over to the diaper pail, knocked on it and said "Oscar!"

Today I said to her, "Naomi, I love you." And she said "I you."

Now I'm trying to figure out when kids start to pronounce the "n" sound-she doesn't yet...she says words like "Balloom" and "spoom" and she can't say her own name. So I'm wondering when the "n" comes.

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[alibee.livejournal.com]

Katie always calls her elbows "elmo", I love it so much.

How many months is she now?

[geminigirl]

She's 28 months-about six months older than Katie.

Does Katie sing yet? Naomi is starting to "sing" which is funny. But she refuses to touch her shoulders when we sing "Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes."

[alibee.livejournal.com]

Hm. So Katie does say her "n"s, because her DCP is "Nina" and she calls her that correctly.

She just started trying to sing. Hearing her rendition of "Happy Birthday" is hilarious. I actually have to tune her out because I keep thinking that she's trying to talk to me while I sing but then I realize she's trying to sing along. :D

[geminigirl]

Apparently for most kids the "N" doesn't develop until some time later according to this. I wonder sometimes how much of Naomi's language development and pronunciation is affected by the bilingual thing though.

Naomi's other fun trick right now is trying to blow her nose. I think she's starting to get the hang of it but the best part is pulling the tissue out of the box.

[alibee.livejournal.com]

K pulls tissues out and then makes spitty noises into them. I don't think she realizes that the air is rushing out of the other orifice when people do that :P

[geminigirl]

I suspect she's getting the hang of nose blowing because the sound she makes when playing with a tissue has changed.

The other thing that cracks me up-when she sees a flower she yells out "flower" and takes a big breath in through her nose and then sighs. It's a yoga exercise we do in her yoga class, but she does it when she's wearing a shirt with a flower on it, or a flower is on the tv or something. It sounds more like "Fwower" but it's unmistakable what she's talking about.

[slinkr.livejournal.com]

The twins (my honorary nephews) are 3 and still working on the "s" sound. One of them has a toy monkey who we thought was named "Scratchy", but he explained to K this week that the monkey's name is actually "Cratchy" but all the adults call him "Sssssscratchy" with an S.

[asunlitrose.livejournal.com]

"N" is a much tougher phoneme than "m." All m takes is closing your lips and pushing sound through your nose/mouth. N takes a very exact placement of your tongue. Try just moving your tongue a little bit in each direction when you make the sound and you'll see what I mean. She's probably pretty close. S has kind of the same placement of the tongue, but no involvement of the nasal passages and vocal cords, so it's easier.

And I HATE the toddler "you put it away I mess it up again right afterwards game." :)

[geminigirl]

She's got the s sound. I'm just curious about the n, though not particularly concerned. I'm seeing that it's a sound that may not develop until some time between ages 3 and 4, which will make listening to her say her name (when she finally decides to say it consistently.)

The only time the mess up/put away game was fun was when Miriam was taking containers out of the cabinet and Naomi was putting them away.