It's really fun watching Esther figure out how to use language. She is definitely working on grammar right now, trying to apply past tense ("The ball rolleded"), auxiliary verbs ("Are you want some crackers?"), and negatives ("No my hippo!"). She seems to be developing pretty normally, though sometimes I wonder about her transposition of sounds (there were several she did chronically, but the only one that comes to mind right now is "wiper dipes" for "diaper wipes") and words ("May I drink glass from your water?"). She has also learned lots of workarounds when a word doesn't come to mind immediately: we hear "thingy" a lot, "stuff" from time to time, and at least once, "thingamabobber." In any case, she is learning more and more vocabulary, and figuring out creative ways to say what she wants. A couple of recent funnies:
She was peering into my ear one evening, and when she started poking her fingers into it, I said, "Hey, that's my private ear!" Tim joked, "As opposed to your public ear?" "No," Esther replied, "that's the other one."
Last night she wanted to shut the door to the bedroom partway. So she said, "Let me close it in half."
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